History and Future: Using Historical Thinking to Imagine the FutureThe book reexamines this long held belief, and argues that the historical method is an excellent way to think about and represent the future. At the same time, the book asserts that futurists should not view the future as a scientist might--aiming for predictions and certainties--but rather should view the future in the same way that an historian views the past. |
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... especially , has been an indefatigable supporter of my work and a thoughtful sounding board . She invited me to present many of these ideas at workshops I offered to executives at Nationwide Insurance . Stephen Millett , himself trained ...
... especially , has been an indefatigable supporter of my work and a thoughtful sounding board . She invited me to present many of these ideas at workshops I offered to executives at Nationwide Insurance . Stephen Millett , himself trained ...
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... especially thank The Ohio State University Department of History for its support of this project . I began writing this book just prior to my ac- cepting the position as Director of the Goldberg Program , and I wondered if I would have ...
... especially thank The Ohio State University Department of History for its support of this project . I began writing this book just prior to my ac- cepting the position as Director of the Goldberg Program , and I wondered if I would have ...
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... especially the role of language in representing the past , " History , like poetry and song , " according to the philosopher and historian Michael Stanford , " is a way of using language . " Because it is fashioned in language , the ...
... especially the role of language in representing the past , " History , like poetry and song , " according to the philosopher and historian Michael Stanford , " is a way of using language . " Because it is fashioned in language , the ...
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... - riety of reasons . Especially with regard to Marx's vision of the past and fu- ture , historians find some speculative philosophies of history wedded uncomfortably to political ideologies , a critique made famous by Introduction 2 3.
... - riety of reasons . Especially with regard to Marx's vision of the past and fu- ture , historians find some speculative philosophies of history wedded uncomfortably to political ideologies , a critique made famous by Introduction 2 3.
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... especially those expounded by Spengler and Toynbee , seem more like prophecy than scholarship . Further , profes- sional historians distrust deterministic explanations of history , since these tend to diminish contingency and human ...
... especially those expounded by Spengler and Toynbee , seem more like prophecy than scholarship . Further , profes- sional historians distrust deterministic explanations of history , since these tend to diminish contingency and human ...
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History and Future: Using Historical Thinking to Imagine the Future David J. Staley Limited preview - 2010 |
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