出版社: Yale University Press
副标题: Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left
出版年: 2014-10-28
页数: 408
定价: USD 28.50
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780300206470
内容简介 · · · · · ·
A leading thinker asks why “faster” is synonymous with “better” in our hurried world and suggests how to take control of our runaway lives
We live in an ever-accelerating world: faster computers, markets, food, fashion, product cycles, minds, bodies, kids, lives. When did everything start moving so fast? Why does speed seem so inevitable? Is faster always better?
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A leading thinker asks why “faster” is synonymous with “better” in our hurried world and suggests how to take control of our runaway lives
We live in an ever-accelerating world: faster computers, markets, food, fashion, product cycles, minds, bodies, kids, lives. When did everything start moving so fast? Why does speed seem so inevitable? Is faster always better?
Drawing together developments in religion, philosophy, art, technology, fashion, and finance, Mark C. Taylor presents an original and rich account of a great paradox of our times: how the very forces and technologies that were supposed to free us by saving time and labor now trap us in a race we can never win. The faster we go, the less time we have, and the more we try to catch up, the farther behind we fall. Connecting our speed-obsession with today’s global capitalism, he composes a grand narrative showing how commitments to economic growth and extreme competition, combined with accelerating technological innovation, have brought us close to disaster. Psychologically, environmentally, economically, and culturally, speed is taking a profound toll on our lives.
By showing how the phenomenon of speed has emerged, Taylor offers us a chance to see our pace of life as the product of specific ideas, practices, and policies. It’s not inevitable or irreversible. He courageously and movingly invites us to imagine how we might patiently work towards a more deliberative life and sustainable world.
“Taylor's observant thought process inspires and promotes the kind of dramatic cultural change necessary to unplug and reflect.”—Kirkus Reviews
(Kirkus Reviews)
“A major scholar’s culminating and engaging vision of how we came to be as we are. Taylor is like a doctor who does not yet have the cure but does have a diagnosis. He names what ails us.”—Jack Miles, author of God: A Biography
(Jack Miles)
“With panache and flashes of brilliance, Taylor, a Columbia University religion professor and cultural critic, offers a philosophically astute analysis of how time works in our era: more is being squeezed into smaller and smaller bits of time, and everyone feels that they have less of it. . . . There is, appropriately, no quick fix, but Taylor provides plenty of provocative, learned ideas.” —Publishers Weekly
(Publishers Weekly)
"Speed Limits is an insightful and provocative book that deserves the widest possible readership. But with one cautionary note: dear readers, please don’t rush through it."—Howard Segal, THES
(Howard Segal THES 2014-11-20)
“A detailed, personal account of the time that machines have given to us--and the time that we have given to them.”—George Dyson, author of Turing's Cathedral
(George Dyson)
“In this brilliant and important book, Mark Taylor explains why we live as we do and why we feel so rotten about it. More importantly, he peels back the dynamics that interact and intersect and gives us hope in our efforts to choose a different gear."—Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of The Googlization of Everything
(Siva Vaidhyanathan)
“In this engrossing, beautifully written and erudite book Mark Taylor reveals how our complex economic, technological and social systems are subject to a devastating trend toward speed. Speed Limits will change your experience of the world—very much for the better.”—Juliet B. Schor, author of Plenitude
(Juliet B. Schor)
“This pathbreaking and transformative work helps us understand the origins and impact of the frenetic world we now live in, the root causes of our financial meltdown, climate change and the daily stress of the 24-7 economy. Speed may not kill, but in this important book we learn that it can destroy the very human capacity for reflection and deep thought.”—Steven Cohen, The Earth Institute, Columbia University
(Steven Cohen)
"Why is the pedal pushed to the metal in virtually every area of our lives? The reasons--historical, theological, technological, financial--are many, and no one has untangled them better than Mark Taylor in this remarkable book, his most important work to date.”—Jack Miles, author of God: A Biography
(Jack Miles)
“In this stunning masterpiece, Mark Taylor brings together deep scholarship, clarity of expression, and frightening, daring vision. This is original thinking at its explosive best. Accessible and timely, Taylor’s Speed Limits is philosophy as it once was: energetic, challenging, life-transforming, and vital.”—Esa Saarinen, Aalto University, Finland
(Esa Saarinen)
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Mark C. Taylor is professor and chair, Department of Religion, Columbia University. He lives in Williamstown, MA and New York, NY.
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0 有用 PtEros 2019-03-01 04:27:00
我还在担心自己时间不够用怎么办,别的人已经甘愿被诊断为多动症,服药提高注意力了,利他林了解一下||读了一章,作者想要我们慢下来,事实上,我们还不够快,人类需要将大脑改造成更高效的信息处理系统
0 有用 PtEros 2019-03-01 04:27:00
我还在担心自己时间不够用怎么办,别的人已经甘愿被诊断为多动症,服药提高注意力了,利他林了解一下||读了一章,作者想要我们慢下来,事实上,我们还不够快,人类需要将大脑改造成更高效的信息处理系统