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A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It
David Fleming
Hardcover
$ 50.00
Visionary mind and writerDavid Fleming ’s masterpiece , the product of more than thirty year ’ body of work and a will to the originative brilliance of one of Britain ’s most important intellectuals .
A dictionary unlike any other , it leads reader through Fleming ’s stimulating exploration of field as divers as cultivation , story , skill , artistry , logic , ethics , myth , political economy , and anthropology , being made up of four hundred and four engaging essay - entries covering topic such as Boredom , Community , Debt , Growth , Harmless Lunatics , Land , Lean Thinking , Nanotechnology , Play , Religion , Spirit , Trust , and Utopia .
The threads running through every entry are Fleming ’s deft and original analytic thinking of how our present market place - based economy is destruct the very foundations — bionomic , economic , and cultural — on which it depends , and his core focus : a compelling , ground imaginativeness for a cohesive society that might endure the consequence . A society that provides a solid , culturally - rich context of use for lives well lived , in an economy not reliant on the impossible hope of eternal economic growth . A society worth living in . deserving fighting for . deserving contributing to .
The beauty of the dictionary data formatting is that it allows Fleming to draw connections without take away from his in - astuteness geographic expedition of each topic . Each entrance carries challenging links to other submission , inviting the enchanted reader to violate barren of the imposed order of a formal book , starting where she will and keep an eye on the links in the order of her choosing . In combination with Fleming ’s refreshing writing style and good - natured humor , it also make a book dead suitable to dim in and out .
The 10 Ian Lancaster Fleming spent perfect his life ’s piece of work are evident in the agility and subordination with whichLean Logicdraws on an incredible wealth of ethnic and diachronic learning — from Whitman to Whitefield , Dickens to Daly , Kropotkin to Kafka , Keats to Kuhn , Oakeshott to Ostrom , Jung to Jensen , Machiavelli to Mumford , Mauss to Mandelbrot , Leopold to Lakatos , Polanyi to Putnam , Nietzsche to Næss , Keynes to Kumar , Scruton to Shiva , Thoreau to Toynbee , Rabelais to Rogers , Shakespeare to Schumacher , Locke to Lovelock , Homer to Homer - Dixon — in demonstrating that many of the principle it commend have a caterpillar tread - record of success long pre - dating our current guild .
Fleming acknowledges , with honesty , the challenge ahead , but rather than inducing desperation , Lean Logicis rare in its ability to pep up optimism in the creativity and word of humans to wet-nurse our ecology back to health ; to rediscover the grandness of situation and period of play , of reciprocality and resiliency , and of community and culture .
- Recognizing thatLean Logic ’s see-through size and strange social structure could be daunting , Fleming ’s tenacious - clock time collaborator Shaun Chamberlin has also selected and edited one of the likely footpath through the dictionary to make a 2d , abide - alone volume , survive the future tense : Culture , Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy . The content , uncommon insights , and uniquely enjoyable writing way remain Fleming ’s , but presented at a more approachable paperback - distance and in conventional read - it - front - to - back format .
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