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Delanty Senses of the Future

Conflicting Ideas of the Future in the World Today
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-11-124060-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

Conflicting Ideas of the Future in the World Today

E-Book, Englisch, 223 Seiten

ISBN: 978-3-11-124060-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)



The future has become a problem for the present. Almost every critical issue is now understood and experienced through the prism of the future since this is the primary focus for the playing out of crises.

offers a wide-ranging discussion of theories of the future. It covers the main ideas of the future in modern thought and explores how we should view the future today in light of a plurality of very different and conflicting visions. The key contribution of this book is to bring together the different approaches with an account that is grounded in sociological and philosophical analysis as opposed to visions of the future that are inspired by extreme visions of catastrophe or approaches that see the future as only the continuation of the present. Given a revival of apocalyptical visions of the ‘end times’ and dystopian views of the future of human societies, there is urgent need for a new approach on how we should imagine the future. The author explores the future as a field of tensions that is revealed in narratives, utopian desires, hope, imaginaries, and social struggles concerning the potential possibilities of the present: the future does not just arrive; it has to be fought for.

This book is an important contribution to a critical sociology of the future. It is both a work of reconstruction and critique grounded in a historical and philosophical hermeneutics of the future.

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Gerard Delanty Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Sussex University. His recent books include (with Neal Harris) (Routledge, 2022) and (Routledge 2020).

Gerard Delanty Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Sussex University. His recent books include (with Neal Harris) (Routledge, 2022) and (Routledge 2020).



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