1st Edition
Yesterday's Tomorrows A Historical Survey of Future Societies
By W. H. G. Armytage
Copyright 1968
302 Pages
by
Routledge
302 Pages
by
Routledge
302 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1968, Yesterday’s Tomorrows elucidates on the favourite occupation of man: forecasting the future. By man’s predictions, he mirrors his own wish-fulfilments, displacements, projections, denials, evasions and withdrawals. These predications can take the form of countries of the imagination, ‘mirror worlds’ like Rabelais’ Ever-Ever lands or the Erewhon of Butler. Alternatively,... Read more
Preface 1. Mantic Heritage 2. Extravagance to Extrapolation 3. The Debate Begins: from Noble Savage to Last Man 4. The Gothic Imagination 5. The Other Side 6. Bellamy and the Mechanical Millenarians 7. Superman and the System 8. The Disenchanted Mechanophobes 9. Virgils of the Dynamo 10. Sectarian Scientism 11. Surmising Forums 12. Operational Eschatologies Notes Index
Biography
W. H. G. Armytage
