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Future Matters: Action, Knowledge, Ethics

Future Matters: Action, Knowledge, Ethics

Hardcover

Series: Supplements to the Study of Time, Book 3

AnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 9004161775
ISBN13: 9789004161771
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Published: Nov 1 2007
Pages: 236
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.57 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
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.

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