The future
by Augé, Marc
For Marc Augé, best-selling author of 'Non-Places', the prevailing idea of 'the Future' rests on our present fears of the contemporary world. It is to the future that we look for redemption and progress; but it is also where we project our personal and apocalyptic anxieties. By questioning notions of certainty, truth, and totality, Augé finds ways to separate the future from our eternal, terrified present and liberates the mind to allow it to conceptualize our possible futures afresh.--
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- Full title :The future / Marc Augé ; translated by John Howe.
Summary
For Marc Augé, best-selling author of 'Non-Places', the prevailing idea of 'the Future' rests on our present fears of the contemporary world. It is to the future that we look for redemption and progress; but it is also where we project our personal and apocalyptic anxieties. By questioning notions of certainty, truth, and totality, Augé finds ways to separate the future from our eternal, terrified present and liberates the mind to allow it to conceptualize our possible futures afresh.--
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- Publication Date:2014.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Verso
- Place of Publication:Brooklyn, NY
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014.
The Physical Object
- Description:106 pages ; : 20 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781781685662, 1781685665, 9781781685679, 1781685673
- oclc:ocn914480711
- LC Classification:GN345
- Dewey Decimal:303.49
Table of Contents
1. Individual future and collective future -- 2. Outlining the plot, expounding the intrigue -- 3. Inauguration -- 4. Self-denial or creation : Flaubert -- 5. New fears -- 6. Innovation -- 7. Bet on the future : meaning, faith, science -- 8. An educational utopia -- 9. By way of provisional conclusion : the ethnologist and the adventure of knowledge.
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