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Future matters : action, knowledge, ethics / by Barbara Adam and Chris Groves.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adam, Barbara, 1945-
- Series:
- Supplements to The study of time ; v. 3.
- Supplements to The study of time ; v. 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Time--Sociological aspects.
- Time.
- Forecasting.
- Social action.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Materials / B. Adam and C. Groves
- Chapter One. Introduction / B. Adam and C. Groves
- Chapter Two. The Future Told / B. Adam and C. Groves
- Chapter Three. The Future Tamed / B. Adam and C. Groves
- Chapter Four. Futures Traded / B. Adam and C. Groves
- Chapter Five. Futures Transformed / B. Adam and C. Groves
- Chapter Six. Futures Traversed / B. Adam and C. Groves
- Chapter Seven. Futures Thought / B. Adam and C. Groves
- Chapter Eight. Futures Tended / B. Adam and C. Groves
- Chapter Nine. Futures Transcended / B. Adam and C. Groves
- Epilogue / B. Adam and C. Groves
- Glossary Of Key Terms / B. Adam and C. Groves
- Bibliography / B. Adam and C. Groves
- Name Index / B. Adam and C. Groves
- Subject Index / B. Adam and C. Groves.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-210) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-93649-9
- 9786611936495
- 90-474-2259-7
- OCLC:
- 310364967
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/ej.9789004161771.i-218 DOI
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