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Modern man's aggressive drive to completely control the world leads to the severing of the living bonds that connect him to it. The dialogue they once shared falls silent. Hartmut Rosa, a leading German sociologist at the universities of Jena and Erfurt, in his analysis of contemporary society, shows not only the ways in which this silenced world is becoming distant from us, but also the consequences this brings: anger, frustration, or anxiety manifesting as political violence on the one hand, and the paralysis of previously functioning systems on the other. He finds a possible way out in the renewal of resonance—a connection with the world and others in which we are open to the other and allow it its essential unavailability.