{"product_id":"9783111240503","title":"Senses of the Future : Conflicting Ideas of the Future in the World Today -- Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e§16§§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. § §Senses of the Future 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 e §16§xplores 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. § §§ §Table of Contents § §Chapter One§Introduction: Conflicting Visions of the Future§Contested Visions of the Future Today§Return to the Future§Outline of the Chapters§References § §Chapter Two§When is the Future? The Problem of Time and the Human Condition§Time in the Physical World: Lessons from Physics§Has the Future already Begun? Time and History§Time, Life, and the Human Condition: Biology, Evolution, and Culture§Conclusion§References § §Chapter Three§Lessons from t §16§he Past: What Does the Past Tell Us about the Future?§The Future in the Past§Failed Societies and Civilizational Collapse§Catastrophes and History§Conclusion§References § §Chapter Four§Modernity and the Concept of the Future: Utopia, Progress, and Prophecy§The Future as Expectation§The Future as an Imaginary and the Emergence of Utopianism§The Future as Possibility§The Future as Experience§Conclusion§References § §Chapter Five§Ideas of the Future in the Twentieth Century: Futurism, Modernism, Sociology, and Political Theory§New Political Ideas of the Future after 1945§Responses to the Future: From Fear of the Future to Futurology§Sociological Theory and the Future§Conclusion: The New Sociology of the Future§References § §Chapter Six§Critical Theory and the Future: The Sources of Transcendence§The Intellectual Origins of Critical Theory: A Brief Outline§The Idea of the Future in the Critical Theory of §16§the Early Frankfurt School§Habermas and the Communication Paradigm§The Responsibility Paradigm and Cosmopolitanism: Jonas and Apel§Critical Cosmopolitanism and the Idea of the Future§Conclusion: Cultural Models and the Future as Possibility§References § §Chapter Seven§Conclusion: In The Shadow of the Future§Do We Need a Theory of the Future?§Are we already in a New Historical Era?§AI and a Posthuman Future§Struggles for the Future§References § §Index § §01§§Gerard Delanty Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Sussex University. His recent books include (with Neal Harris) Capitalism and its Critics (Routledge, 2022) and Critical Theory and Social Transformation (Routledge 2020). §\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45653282586703,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":3710.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9783111240503","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}