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The Rise and Fall of Generation Now Tim Ingold

The Rise and Fall of Generation Now By Tim Ingold

The Rise and Fall of Generation Now by Tim Ingold


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The Rise and Fall of Generation Now by Tim Ingold

Is the future about to close in, or is it open to new horizons? For anthropologist Tim Ingold, the root of our difficulty in facing up to the future lies in the way we think about generations. We imagine them as layers, succeeding one another like sheets in a stack. This view figures as a largely unquestioned backdrop to discussions of evolution, life and death, longevity, extinction, sustainability, education, climate change, and other matters of contemporary concern. What if we were to think of generations, instead, as wrapping around one another along their length, more like fibres in a rope than stacked sheets?

In this compelling new book, Ingold argues that a return to the idea that life is forged in the collaboration of overlapping generations might not only assuage some of our anxieties, but also offer a lasting foundation for future coexistence. But it would mean having to abandon our faith both in the inevitability of progress, and in the ability of science and technology to cushion humanity from environmental impacts. A perfect world is not around the corner, nor will our troubles ever end. Nevertheless, for as long as life continues, there is hope for generations to come.

The Rise and Fall of Generation Now Reviews

This short book is a deeply felt personal statement as well as an important and timely intervention in a range of scholarly debates concerning not least the relationship between past, present, and future in a time of planetary crisis.
Stuart McLean, University of Minnesota

About Tim Ingold

Tim Ingold is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.

Table of Contents

Preface
List of Figures

Chapter 1: Generations and the Regeneration of Life
Chapter 2: Modelling the Human Life Course
Chapter 3: Remembering the Way
Chapter 4: Uncertainty and Possibility
Chapter 5: Loss and Extinction
Chapter 6: Recentring Anthropos
Chapter 7: The Way of Education
Chapter 8: After Science and Technology

Notes
Index

Additional information

NGR9781509556618
9781509556618
1509556613
The Rise and Fall of Generation Now by Tim Ingold
New
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
2023-11-24
157
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