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The foresight principle : cultural recovery in the 21st century /

By: Slaughter, Richard.
Series: Praeger studies on the 21st century.Publisher: Westport, CT : Praeger, 1995Description: xviii, 232 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0275952924 (alk. paper); 9780275952921; 0275952932.Subject(s): Social change | Culture | Civilization, Modern -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 303.490905
Contents:
Foreword / Hazel Henderson -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Establishing the context : looking beyond the industrial worldview. Chap. 1. Looking back -- Chap. 2. Looking around -- Chap. 3. Looking forward -- Part 2. Applying and extending the foresight principle. Chap. 4. How foresight is already understood and used -- Chap. 5. How a changing worldview can help our institutions become more far-sighted -- Chap. 6. Extending foresight through analysis, imagination and social imaging -- Chap. 7. Why we need institutions of foresight -- Part 3. Cultural recovery in the 21st century. Chap. 8. Creating positive views of futures with young people -- Chap. 9. Cultural reconstruction in the post-modern world : aspects of a renewed worldview -- Chap. 10. Towards a wise culture -- Conclusion : the promise of the 21st century -- Annotated bibliography -- Index.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 303.490905 SLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0052038
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-221) and index.

Foreword / Hazel Henderson -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Establishing the context : looking beyond the industrial worldview. Chap. 1. Looking back -- Chap. 2. Looking around -- Chap. 3. Looking forward -- Part 2. Applying and extending the foresight principle. Chap. 4. How foresight is already understood and used -- Chap. 5. How a changing worldview can help our institutions become more far-sighted -- Chap. 6. Extending foresight through analysis, imagination and social imaging -- Chap. 7. Why we need institutions of foresight -- Part 3. Cultural recovery in the 21st century. Chap. 8. Creating positive views of futures with young people -- Chap. 9. Cultural reconstruction in the post-modern world : aspects of a renewed worldview -- Chap. 10. Towards a wise culture -- Conclusion : the promise of the 21st century -- Annotated bibliography -- Index.

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