The Future

Marc Auge

Book 3 of Futures

Language: English

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Philosophy

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: Feb 24, 2015

Words: 28925
Flesch: 48.12
DDC: 303.49
FAST Tags: Future; The; in literature, Future; The; in popular culture, Civilization; Modern--Philosophy, Ethnology--Philosophy, Madame Bovary (Flaubert; Gustave)
LCC: GN345

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.