{"product_id":"senses-of-the-future-conflicting-ideas-of-the-future-in-the-world-today-9783111242217","title":"Senses of the Future: Conflicting Ideas of the Future in the World Today","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSenses of the Future\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter One\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Conflicting Visions of the Future\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eContested Visions of the Future Today\u003cbr\u003eReturn to the Future\u003cbr\u003eOutline of the Chapters\u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter Two\u003cbr\u003eWhen is the Future? The Problem of Time and the Human Condition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTime in the Physical World: Lessons from Physics\u003cbr\u003eHas the Future already Begun? Time and History\u003cbr\u003eTime, Life, and the Human Condition: Biology, Evolution, and Culture\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter Three\u003cbr\u003eLessons from the Past: What Does the Past Tell Us about the Future?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Future in the Past\u003cbr\u003eFailed Societies and Civilizational Collapse\u003cbr\u003eCatastrophes and History\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter Four\u003cbr\u003eModernity and the Concept of the Future: Utopia, Progress, and Prophecy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Future as Expectation\u003cbr\u003eThe Future as an Imaginary and the Emergence of Utopianism\u003cbr\u003eThe Future as Possibility\u003cbr\u003eThe Future as Experience\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter Five\u003cbr\u003eIdeas of the Future in the Twentieth Century: Futurism, Modernism, Sociology, and Political Theory\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew Political Ideas of the Future after 1945\u003cbr\u003eResponses to the Future: From Fear of the Future to Futurology\u003cbr\u003eSociological Theory and the Future\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: The New Sociology of the Future\u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter Six\u003cbr\u003eCritical Theory and the Future: The Sources of Transcendence\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Intellectual Origins of Critical Theory: A Brief Outline\u003cbr\u003eThe Idea of the Future in the Critical Theory of the Early Frankfurt School\u003cbr\u003eHabermas and the Communication Paradigm\u003cbr\u003eThe Responsibility Paradigm and Cosmopolitanism: Jonas and Apel\u003cbr\u003eCritical Cosmopolitanism and the Idea of the Future\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Cultural Models and the Future as Possibility\u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter Seven\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: In The Shadow of the Future\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDo We Need a Theory of the Future?\u003cbr\u003eAre we already in a New Historical Era?\u003cbr\u003eAI and a Posthuman Future\u003cbr\u003eStruggles for the Future\u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerard Delanty Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Sussex University. His recent books include (with Neal Harris) \u003cem\u003eCapitalism and its Critics\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge, 2022) and \u003cem\u003eCritical Theory and Social Transformation\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge 2020). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"de Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50564781900050,"sku":"9783111242217","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_de6a4668-c43e-4a4f-b3f7-6080e0a8ba03.jpg?v=1731880508","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/senses-of-the-future-conflicting-ideas-of-the-future-in-the-world-today-9783111242217","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}