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Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH
Total Pages: 500
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ISBN: 3899716299

The Future of the World

The Future of the World
Author: Jenny Andersson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2018-07-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0192545507

The Future of the World is devoted to the intriguing field of study which emerged after World War Two, futurism or futurology. Jenny Andersson explains how futurist scholars and researchers imagined the Cold War and post Cold War world and the tools and methods they would use to influence and change that world. Futurists were a motley crew of Cold War warriors, nuclear scientists, journalists, and peace activists. Some argued it should be a closed sphere of science defined by delimited probabilities. They were challenged by alternative notions of the future as a potentially open realm. Futurism also drew on an eclectic range of repertoires, some of which were deduced from positivist social science, mathematics, and nuclear physics, and some of which sprung from alternative forms of knowledge in science fiction, journalism, or religion. These different forms of prediction laid very different claims to how accurately futures could be known, and what kind of control could be exerted over what was yet to come. The Future of the World carefully examines these different engagements with the future, and inscribes them in the intellectual history of the post war period. Using unexplored archival collections, The Future of the World reconstructs the Cold War networks of futurologists and futurists.

Annales

Annales
Author: Stuart Clark
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780415155540

This collection reprints key articles written within the past 30 years on the Annales school, their journal, their influence on history, historiography and other academic fields.

Partura

Partura
Author: Caroline Masson
Publisher: Le Lys Bleu Éditions
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2024
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Paideia

Paideia
Author: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 940172525X

The education of humanity is the key to the next century's culture, its social and practical life. The main concerns of education are perennial, but the continuous flood of inventions, the technological innovations that re-shape life, calls for a radically new appraisal of the situation, such as only philosophy can provide. Answering the call of humanity for the measure, sense of proportion and direction that could re-orient present and future education, the phenomenology of life - integral and scientific, in a dialogue with the arts, the sciences, and the humanities - proposes an ontopoietic model of life's unfolding as the universal paradigm for this re-orientation. Taking the Human Creative Condition as its Archimedean point, it offers a unique context for a fresh investigation of the concerns of education, both perennial and immediate.

The Thematics of Commitment

The Thematics of Commitment
Author: Peter Maxwell Cryle
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1400853702

Viewing thematic writing as the differentiation and elaboration of cultural knowledge, P. M. Cryle applies this new kind of thematics to the commitment" most often mentioned by literary critics in connection with existentialist literature. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Paths of Enterprise

Paths of Enterprise
Author: James Curran
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1991
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415057882

By using research carried out on small business activities this book draws a comprehensive picture of the current situation and speculates on the future; it assesses the impact of factors such as technological innovation and government schemes.

Transpositions

Transpositions
Author: Alison Rice
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2021
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1789621119

This collective volume concentrates on the concept of transposition, exploring its potential as a lens through which to examine recent Francophone literary, cinematic, theatrical, musical, and artistic creations that reveal multilingual and multicultural realities. The chapters are composed by leading scholars in French and Francophone Studies who engage in interdisciplinary reflections on the ways transcontinental movement has influenced diverse genres. It begins with the premise that an attentiveness to migration has inspired writers, artists, filmmakers, playwrights and musicians to engage in new forms of translation in their work. Their own diverse backgrounds combine with their awareness of the itineraries of others to have an impact on the innovative languages that emerge in their creative production. These contemporary figures realize that migratory actualities must be transposed into different linguistic and cultural contexts in order to be legible and audible, in order to be perceptible - either for the reader, the listener, or the viewer. The novels, films, plays, works of art and musical pieces that exemplify such transpositions adopt inventive elements that push the limits of formal composition in French. This work is therefore often inspiring as it points in evocative ways toward fluid influences and a plurality of interactions that render impossible any static conception of being or belonging.