Peter Adamson
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And I hope that the audience will think it's an interesting enough book to seek out.
As you say, it covers the 20th century.
So this
sort of the history of the future, as it were.
Yeah.
So I really pick up in the very late nineteenth century as shifts are happening in the way that people understand the future and particularly the way that they go about the art of prediction.
And one interesting thing about the book is the chapters have sort of eye catching titles, which are more thematic.
So it's not just like nineteen oh five to nineteen fifteen or something.
So the first one is called Heaven and Hell.
Right.
Right, exactly.
So this is looking at the very early twentieth century, as I say, coming out of the nineteenth.
And here what I'm trying to do, I suppose, is get a handle on how people understood the future.
in a pre modern context.
So here I guess by modern I mean the creation of this kind of technocratic way of thinking about knowledge of all kinds, but that would very much include knowledge about the future.
So the first chapter, Heaven and Hell, looks at what you might call illir or you know, surviving ways of thinking about the future, which are often, although not al
Always couched in religious terms and generally tend to make extreme claims about the future, i.e., it's either going to be perfection or it's going to be perdition.
And a lot of the models or conceptual models for that kind of butrology are really based on, for example, last judgment imagery from the Middle Ages.
So these are things that go way back.
And generally speaking,
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