From The Past To The Future
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The Future Of The Past
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Author : Alexander Stille
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2003-04-01
The Future Of The Past written by Alexander Stille and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-01 with Social Science categories.
An engrossing look at the cultural consequences of technological change and globalization Space radar, infrared photography, carbon dating, DNA analysis, microfilm, digital data bases-we have better technology than ever for studying and preserving the past. And yet the by-products of technology threaten to destroy--in one or two generations--monuments, works of art, and ways of life that have survived thousands of years of hardship and war. This paradox is central to our age. We use the Internet to access and assess infinite amounts of information--but understand less and less of its historical context. Globalization may eventually benefit countries around the world; it will also, almost certainly, lead to the disappearance of hundreds of regional dialects, languages, and whole societies. In The Future of the Past, Alexander Stille takes us on a tour of the past as it exists today and weighs its prospects for tomorrow, from China to Somalia to Washington, D.C. Through incisive portraits of their protagonists, he describes high-tech struggles to save the Great Sphinx and the Ganges; efforts to preserve Latin within the Vatican; the digital glut inside the National Archives, which may have lost more information in the information age than ever before; an oral culture threatened by a "new" technology: writing itself. Wherever it takes him, Stille explores not just the past, but our ideas about the past, how they are changing--and how they will have to change if our past is to have a future.
Futures Past
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Author : Reinhart Koselleck
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2004
Futures Past written by Reinhart Koselleck and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Modernity in the late eighteenth century transformed all domains of European life -intellectual, industrial, and social. Not least affected was the experience of time itself: ever-accelerating change left people with briefer intervals of time in which to gather new experiences and adapt. In this provocative and erudite book Reinhart Koselleck, a distinguished philosopher of history, explores the concept of historical time by posing the question: what kind of experience is opened up by the emergence of modernity? Relying on an extraordinary array of witnesses and texts from politicians, philosophers, theologians, and poets to Renaissance paintings and the dreams of German citizens during the Third Reich, Koselleck shows that, with the advent of modernity, the past and the future became 'relocated' in relation to each other.The promises of modernity -freedom, progress, infinite human improvement -produced a world accelerating toward an unknown and unknowable future within which awaited the possibility of achieving utopian fulfillment. History, Koselleck asserts, emerged in this crucial moment as a new temporality providing distinctly new ways of assimilating experience. In the present context of globalization and its resulting crises, the modern world once again faces a crisis in aligning the experience of past and present. To realize that each present was once an imagined future may help us once again place ourselves within a temporality organized by human thought and humane ends as much as by the contingencies of uncontrolled events.
Between Past And Future
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Author : Hannah Arendt
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2006-09-26
Between Past And Future written by Hannah Arendt and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-26 with Philosophy categories.
From the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism, “a book to think with through the political impasses and cultural confusions of our day” (Harper’s Magazine) Hannah Arendt’s insightful observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute an impassioned contribution to political philosophy. In Between Past and Future Arendt describes the perplexing crises modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory. Through a series of eight exercises, she shows how we can redistill the vital essence of these concepts and use them to regain a frame of reference for the future. To participate in these exercises is to associate, in action, with one of the most original and fruitful minds of the twentieth century.
China S Past China S Future
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Author : Vaclav Smil
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-03
China S Past China S Future written by Vaclav Smil and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03 with History categories.
China has a population of 1.3 billion people which puts enormous strain on her natural resources. This volume, by one of the leading scholars on the earth's biosphere, provides the fullest account yet of the environmental challenges that China faces.
Social Sustainability Past And Future
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Author : Sander van der Leeuw
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-02-13
Social Sustainability Past And Future written by Sander van der Leeuw and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-13 with Business & Economics categories.
A novel, integrated approach to understanding long-term human history, viewing it as the long-term evolution of human information-processing. This title is also available as Open Access.
From Past Present To Future Perfect
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Author : Charles A. Bunge
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1999
From Past Present To Future Perfect written by Charles A. Bunge and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Explore reprints of selected articles by Charles Bunge, bibliographies of his published work, and original articles that draw on Bunge's values and ideas in assessing the present and shaping the future of reference service. As a reference librarian you will explore four categories of Bunge's work, measuring the effectiveness of reference service, the reference environment, reference sources, and reflections on the past and future of reference work. This important book will assist you in creating and maintaing an effective, and ethical reference service today and for the future.
The Soul Of Grammar
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Author : E. A. Sonnenschein
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-06-12
The Soul Of Grammar written by E. A. Sonnenschein and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-12 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This book, first published in 1927, analyses the grammar of various Western languages, both ancient and modern.
Fact And Fiction
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Author : Albrecht Koschorke
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2018-04-23
Fact And Fiction written by Albrecht Koschorke and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
How can we develop a cultural theory starting with the basic insight that human beings are "storytelling animals"? Within literary studies, narratology is a highly developed field. However, literary historians have not paid much attention to the large and small stories abounding in everyday discourse, guiding all kinds of social activity, and providing common ground for whole societies—but also fueling controversies and hostilities. Moreover, "narrative" is not only a scholarly category but has come into use in many fields of social activity as a tool for cultural self-fashioning. This book is based on the assumption that to a large extent, social dynamics is modeled in an aesthetic manner via narratives. It explores the narrative organization of cultural spaces and time-frames, the mythological shaping of communities and adversaries, and the co-production of narratives and institutions aimed at stabilizing social life. In this framework, the epistemological problem looms large of how an instrument as unreliable as narrative can participate in the creation of a social consensus regarding truth. This problem endows the general topics explored in this book with a particularly contemporary dimension.
Embracing The Ivory Tower And Stained Glass Windows
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Author : Jennifer Baldwin
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-12-17
Embracing The Ivory Tower And Stained Glass Windows written by Jennifer Baldwin and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-17 with Religion categories.
This book brings together contributions from scholars from Europe and the United States to honor the theological work of Antje Jackelén, the first female Archbishop of the Church of Sweden. In Archbishop Antje Jackelén’s installation homily, she identifies the strength of the Church as a “global network of prayer threads.” This book is an honorary and celebratory volume providing a “global network of prayerful essays” by contributors from a variety of academic disciplines to creatively engage, reflect, and illuminate the theological work of Archbishop Jackelén. Prior to her tenure in the Church of Sweden as Bishop of the Diocese of Lund and now the Archbishop of the Church of Sweden, Jackelén served as professor of Systematic Theology, Director of the Zygon Center and President of European Society for the Study of Science and Religion (ESSSAT). While each essay intentionally embraces the theological and ministerial work of Jackelén during her academic tenure, they also venture into areas as diverse as climate change, media studies, human uniqueness, hermeneutics, time, ethics, Christian theological tradition and history, traumatology, politics and society. As the first diverse explication of the theological thinking of Archbishop Jackelén by her theological colleagues, this text provides scholars with an expansion of the scope of Archbishop Jackelén’s theological thinking and initiates laity into the impact of Jackelén thinking that combines with grace and precision the traditions of the Church, the challenges and gifts of the sciences, and the needs and longings of society and the world.
Persistent Pollution Past Present And Future
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Author : Markus Quante
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-05-26
Persistent Pollution Past Present And Future written by Markus Quante and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-26 with Science categories.
This book evolved from the 5th School of Environmental Research entitled „Persistent Pollution – Past, Present and Future", which has set a focus on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), heavy metals and aerosols. - reconstruction of past changes based on the scientific analysis of natural archives such as ice cores and peat deposits, - evaluation of the present environmental state by the integration of measurements and modelling and the establishment of cause-effect-patterns, - assessment of possible environmental future scenarios including emission and climate change perspectives.