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What Today's World Demands from Us

  • The world is spinning faster than ever before. What the Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman once called “fluid modernity” has become the most relevant characteristic of our restless times. It seems as if absolutely nothing is of continuity: neither basic values nor once powerful institutions can withdraw themselves from this engrossing maelstrom of post-modernism. The same applies to physical spaces and knowledge itself, leaving us with a most uneasy feeling caused by the dissolving blur of truth. What we could believe in yesterday is about to fall into the clutches of liquidation. The whole world is subject to a completely uncontrollable and inexorable process of delimitation: Bigger, faster, higher, louder, are far more the prevailing keywords of the early 21st century, leaving us all behind in a constant fear about ourselves...
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Author:Prof. Dr. Anabel Ternès, Joachim App
ISSN:2223-5833
Parent Title (English):Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2018/02/16
Publishing Institution:SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences
Release Date:2018/02/16
Tag:Fluid modernity; Process of delimitation
Volume:6
Issue:2
First Page:1
Last Page:1
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Link author profile:https://www.srh-berlin.de/hochschule/hochschulteam/ternes-anabel/
JEL-Classification:O Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International
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