Future matters : action, knowledge, ethics / / by Barbara Adam and Chris Groves.

• Superior document: Supplements to The study of time ; v. 3
• Author: Adam, Barbara, 1945-
• TeilnehmendeR: Groves, Chris.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to The study of time ; v. 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Materials /; Chapter One. Introduction /; Chapter Two. The Future Told /; Chapter Three. The Future Tamed /; Chapter Four. Futures Traded /; Chapter Five. Futures Transformed /; Chapter Six. Futures Traversed /; Chapter Seven. Futures Thought /; Chapter Eight. Futures Tended /; Chapter Nine. Futures Transcended /; Epilogue /; Glossary Of Key Terms /; Bibliography /; Name Index /; Subject Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-210) and indexes.
• ISBN: 1281936499; 9786611936495; 9047422597
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Barbara Adam and Chris Groves.

Future Matters concerns contemporary approaches to the future – how the future is known, created and minded. In a social world whose pace continues to accelerate the future becomes an increasingly difficult terrain. While the focus of social life is narrowing down to the present, the futures we create on a daily basis cast ever longer shadows. Future Matters addresses this paradox and its deep ethical implications. It locates contemporary approaches to the future in a wider sociological and historical framework of practices, traces differences and continuities, and shows how contemporary practices of futures-construction make taking responsibility for futures all but impossible.