Here stands the huge paradox that the philosopher and sociologist Hartmut Rosa explores in his outstanding book, an essay that will certainly be a landmark in the history of thought, Alienation and Acceleration : Towards a Critical Theory of Late-Modern Temporality .įor this thinker of the critical theory, the experience of modernization is an experience of acceleration.
We are running out of time despite the fact we are running faster and faster. Though technical progress, the ally of modernity, made the promise of freeing men from every constraint linked to a lack of time, the modern man feels under the yoke of the clock and trapped in his Time.