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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... language . " In addressing these two audiences , the book will explore the similarities be- tween the historical method and the scenario method , a strategic - planning tool developed by Royal Dutch Shell in the 1970s , and used today ...
... language . " In addressing these two audiences , the book will explore the similarities be- tween the historical method and the scenario method , a strategic - planning tool developed by Royal Dutch Shell in the 1970s , and used today ...
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... 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 philosopher F. R. ...
... 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 philosopher F. R. ...
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... languages , the word " history " has two related connotations , mean- ing both " the past " and " the narration of ... language to create narrations of the future . Historians and philosophers of history — if they have addressed it at ...
... languages , the word " history " has two related connotations , mean- ing both " the past " and " the narration of ... language to create narrations of the future . Historians and philosophers of history — if they have addressed it at ...
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... language employed by historians is an extension of the concerns of analytic philosophers ; in fact , we might pe- riodize the current " postmodern challenge " as being part of the larger history of analytic approaches to the philosophy ...
... language employed by historians is an extension of the concerns of analytic philosophers ; in fact , we might pe- riodize the current " postmodern challenge " as being part of the larger history of analytic approaches to the philosophy ...
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... language . A historian , according to this view , is little different from a fiction writer , his or her history2 making reference not to the past but only to other historyZs . Traditional rules of ev- idence and other facets of the ...
... language . A historian , according to this view , is little different from a fiction writer , his or her history2 making reference not to the past but only to other historyZs . Traditional rules of ev- idence and other facets of the ...
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History and Future: Using Historical Thinking to Imagine the Future David J. Staley Limited preview - 2010 |
History and Future: Using Historical Thinking to Imagine the Future David J. Staley Limited preview - 2006 |
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