| Future Matters: Action, Knowledge, Ethics Contributor(s): Adam, Barbara (Author), Groves, Chris (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004161775 ISBN-13: 9789004161771 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $96.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2007 Annotation: Future Matters concerns contemporary approaches to the future - how the future is known, created and minded. In a social world whose pace continues to accelerate the future becomes an increasingly difficult terrain. While the focus of social life is narrowing down to the present, the futures we create on a daily basis cast ever longer shadows. Future Matters addresses this paradox and its deep ethical implications. It locates contemporary approaches to the future in a wider sociological and historical framework of practices, traces differences and continuities, and shows how contemporary practices of futures-construction make taking responsibility for futures all but impossible. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Future Studies - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 303.49 |
| Series: Supplements to the Study of Time |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6.57" W x 9.7" (1.18 lbs) 236 pages |