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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453916003321

Autore

Adam Barbara <1945->

Titolo

Future matters [[electronic resource] ] : action, knowledge, ethics / / by Barbara Adam and Chris Groves

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007

ISBN

1-281-93649-9

9786611936495

90-474-2259-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Collana

Supplements to The study of time ; ; v. 3

Altri autori (Persone)

GrovesChris

Disciplina

303.49

Soggetti

Time - Sociological aspects

Forecasting

Social action

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-210) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.