The future
By: Marc Augé ; translated by John Howe
Edition: English-language edition.
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9781781685662; 9781781685679
Subjects: Ethnology; Philosophy; Future in popular culture; Modern Civilization; Future in literature
Work titles: Futuro
First sentence: The subject of this book is the future.
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Individual future and collective future; title: Outlining the plot, expounding the intrigue; title: Inauguration; title: Self-denial or creation : Flaubert; title: New fears; title: Innovation; title: Bet on the future : meaning, faith, science; title: An educational utopia; title: By way of provisional conclusion : the ethnologist and the adventure of knowledge.