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In the Presence of the Future

Mapping the Roads to Tomorrow

by Georg Schmid (Author)
©2012 Monographs 488 Pages

Summary

The divide between the techno-scientific and the humanities paradigm has critically endangered general comprehension. The prolegomena to a «unified field theory of futurology» presented here attempt to reconcile these epistemological models by meticulously investigating a gamut of supposedly separate areas, from the social use of art or religion via demographic, economic and technological data to moral and political philosophy. This highly panoramatic and integrative inspection of problems humankind will be facing in the near and foreseeable future yields novel perspectives and a superior grasp of beneficial social practice.

Details

Pages
488
Year
2012
ISBN (PDF)
9783653014273
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631637111
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-01427-3
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (June)
Keywords
Science Fiction History Demographie Technology: wars of religion
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2012. 488 pp.

Biographical notes

Georg Schmid (Author)

Georg Schmid taught modern and contemporary history, mostly at the University of Salzburg. He has published some fifteen books and well over a hundred scholarly and literary essays. His previous book is The Narrative of the Occident. An Essay on Its Present State, also available from Peter Lang.

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