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The foresight principle : cultural recovery in the 21st century / Richard A. Slaughter ; foreword by Hazel Henderson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Praeger studies on the 21st centuryPublisher: Westport, CT : Praeger, 1995Description: xviii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0275952924
  • 9780275952921
  • 0275952932
  • 9780275952938
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.490905 20
LOC classification:
  • HM101 .S613 1995
Contents:
Foreword / Hazel Henderson -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Establishing the context : looking beyond the industrial worldview. Chap. 1. Looking back -- Chap. 2. Looking around -- Chap. 3. Looking forward -- Part 2. Applying and extending the foresight principle. Chap. 4. How foresight is already understood and used -- Chap. 5. How a changing worldview can help our institutions become more far-sighted -- Chap. 6. Extending foresight through analysis, imagination and social imaging -- Chap. 7. Why we need institutions of foresight -- Part 3. Cultural recovery in the 21st century. Chap. 8. Creating positive views of futures with young people -- Chap. 9. Cultural reconstruction in the post-modern world : aspects of a renewed worldview -- Chap. 10. Towards a wise culture -- Conclusion : the promise of the 21st century -- Annotated bibliography -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-221) and index.

Foreword / Hazel Henderson -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Establishing the context : looking beyond the industrial worldview. Chap. 1. Looking back -- Chap. 2. Looking around -- Chap. 3. Looking forward -- Part 2. Applying and extending the foresight principle. Chap. 4. How foresight is already understood and used -- Chap. 5. How a changing worldview can help our institutions become more far-sighted -- Chap. 6. Extending foresight through analysis, imagination and social imaging -- Chap. 7. Why we need institutions of foresight -- Part 3. Cultural recovery in the 21st century. Chap. 8. Creating positive views of futures with young people -- Chap. 9. Cultural reconstruction in the post-modern world : aspects of a renewed worldview -- Chap. 10. Towards a wise culture -- Conclusion : the promise of the 21st century -- Annotated bibliography -- Index.

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