ENGLISH

Future Matters

By B. , C. , Adam , Groves

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2007
ISBN
9004161775, 9789004161771, 9789047422594
LCC
HM656 .A32 2007
Open Library ID
OL12799292M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2876658 bytes)
Series
Supplements to the Study of Time
Edition
1
Pages
237\237
Time added
2011-01-26 19:25:26

Description

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.

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