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The future / Marc Augé ; translated by John Howe.
Van Pelt Library GN345 .A92213 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Augé, Marc, author.
- Series:
- Verso futures
- Standardized Title:
- Futuro. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Philosophy.
- Ethnology.
- Future, The, in popular culture.
- Civilization, Modern--1950---Philosophy.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Philosophy.
- Future, The, in literature.
- Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880. Madame Bovary.
- Flaubert, Gustave.
- Physical Description:
- 106 pages ; 20 cm.
- Edition:
- English-language edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2014.
- Summary:
- For Marc Augé, best-selling author of Non-Places, the prevailing idea of 'the Future' rests on our present fears of the contemporary world. It is to the future that we look for redemption and progress; but it is also where we project our personal and apocalyptic anxieties. By questioning notions of certainty, truth, and totality, Augé finds ways to separate the future from our eternal, terrified present and liberates the mind to allow it to conceptualize our possible futures afresh. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Individual future and collective future
- Outlining the plot, expounding the intrigue
- Inauguration
- Self-denial or creation : Flaubert
- New fears
- Innovation
- Bet on the future : meaning, faith, science
- An educational utopia
- By way of provisional conclusion : the ethnologist and the adventure of knowledge.
- Notes:
- First published as Futuro, © Bollati Boringhieri 2012.
- ISBN:
- 9781781685662
- 1781685665
- 9781781685679
- 1781685673
- OCLC:
- 892055801
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