The Future

by Marc Auge, John Howe (Translator)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781685686
Publisher:	Verso Books
Publication date:	02/03/2015
Series:	Futures
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Marc Augé is Director of Studies at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. His many books include Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity and The Future.

Table of Contents

1 Individual Future and Collective Future 1

2 Outlining the Plot, Expounding the Intrigue 5

3 Inauguration 17

4 Self-Denial or Creation: Flaubert 29

5 New Fears 47

6 Innovation 59

7 Bet on the Future: Meaning, Faith, Science 73

8 An Educational Utopia 85

9 By Way of Provisional Conclusion: The Ethnologist and the Adventure of Knowledge 99

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Marc Augé’s Non-Places:

“Unsettling, elegantly written and illuminating: essential reading.”
—PD Smith, Guardian

“A timely and original book.”
—Patrick Wright

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