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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... sense it can be said that we have historical writing in or- der to compensate for the absence of the past itself . " In this formulation , his- toryZ is a substitute for historyl ; the question for the philosophy of history , then , is ...
... sense it can be said that we have historical writing in or- der to compensate for the absence of the past itself . " In this formulation , his- toryZ is a substitute for historyl ; the question for the philosophy of history , then , is ...
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... sense of creating or making things up like science fiction stories , but this chapter argues for the use of " historical imagination " when thinking about the future — that is , a disciplined enactment of the future in our minds . The ...
... sense of creating or making things up like science fiction stories , but this chapter argues for the use of " historical imagination " when thinking about the future — that is , a disciplined enactment of the future in our minds . 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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