Future matters : action, knowledge, ethics / by Barbara Adam and Chris Groves.
Material type: TextSeries: Supplements to The study of time ; v. 3.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007Description: xvii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9004161775
- 9789004161771
- 303.49 22
- HM656 .A32 2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Prologue; Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two The Future Told; Chapter Three The Future Tamed; Chapter Four Futures Traded; Chapter Five Futures Transformed; Chapter Six Futures Traversed; Chapter Seven Futures Thought; Chapter Eight Futures Tended; Chapter Nine Futures Transcended; Epilogue; Glossary of Key Terms; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index.
"This Book 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."--Jacket.
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