Includes bibliographical references (pages 118-132).
Contents
Introduction: On Snow -- The World as a Point of Aggression -- Four Dimensions of Controllability -- The Paradoxical Flipside: The Mysterious Retreat of the World -- The World as a Point of Resonance -- Five Theses on the Controllability of Things and the Uncontrollability of Experience -- To Take Control or Let Things Happen? The Basic Conflict of Modernity at Six Stages of Life -- Control as an Institutional Necessity: The Structural Dimension of the Basic Conflict of Modernity -- The Uncontrollability of Desire and the Desire for the Uncontrollable -- The Monstrous Return of the Uncontrollable -- Conclusion.
Summary
"The price we pay for our modern desire to control the world"-- Provided by publisher.
