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How To Re-Imagine The World: A Pocket Guide for Practical Visionaries - Softcover

Weston, Anthony

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9780865715943: How To Re-Imagine The World: A Pocket Guide for Practical Visionaries
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ISBN 10: 0865715947 ISBN 13: 9780865715943
Publisher: New Society Publishers, 2007

Synopsis

Who says that all possible social and political systems have already been invented? Or that work—or marriage, or environmentalism, or anything else—must be just what they are now?

This book is a conceptual toolbox for imagining and initiating radical social change. Chapters offer specific, focused, and shareable techniques:

  • Seeking a Whole Vision: Creating a pull and not just a push toward change
  • Generative Thinking: Looking for “Seeds” and “Sparks”, Stretching and Twisting Ideas, and Going Two Steps Too Far
  • Looking for Unexpected Openings: “Weeds” and “Wild Cards,” Inside Tracks, Leverage Points, and Hidden Possibilities
  • Working at the Roots: Reconstructing the built world, cultural practices, even worldviews
  • Building Momentum: Playing to our Strengths, Reclaiming the Language, “Allying Everywhere,” Doing it Now, Going for Broke

Leap-frogging new kinds of cars and better mass transit in turn, why not a world in which “transportation” itself is unneeded? What about remaking New Orleans as a floating city, or putting only extreme surfers in the path of hurricanes? And why not dream of the stars? The question is not whether radical change is coming. It is already well underway. The only question is who will make it. Why not us?

Anthony Weston is a professor of philosophy at Elon University in North Carolina, where he teaches ethics, environmental studies, and “Millennial Imagination.” He is the author of ten other books, including Back to Earth, Jobs for Philosophers, and Creativity for Critical Thinkers.

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About the Author

Anthony Weston is Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Elon University in North Carolina. The author of ten previous books on ethics and creativity, including A Rulebook for Arguments now in is third edition, he has been teaching creative thinking and radical social creativity for ten years.

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Publisher
New Society Publishers
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0865715947
ISBN 13 
9780865715943
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
152
Rating
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