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Title:
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PROJECTION OF KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES TOWARDS THE PAST |
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Author(s):
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Arnulfo Felix Jr. |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8533-75-3 |
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Editors:
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Piet Kommers and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2018 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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History, Knowledge Societies, Future; Present, Self-sufficient, Sciences |
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Type:
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Reflection Paper |
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First Page:
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377 |
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Last Page:
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379 |
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Language:
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English |
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Paper Abstract:
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This reflection paper examines the role of History in Knowledge Societies. It simultaneously follows two parallel premises. First, it discusses Knowledge Societies reactions derived from the idea of a non-existent present as theorized by German writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The fact that this unformed future, which cannot be reached until the future comes to fruition, has been overlooked in the development of Knowledge Society theories. It also looks at the dilemma that Knowledge Societies are not self-sufficient sciences, and thus they must be examined within the context of an already recognized science, such as History, to develop exact, stable and fully-explored procedures. My argument suggests that much of what we today call Knowledge Societies was not bred by a KS paradigm but rather by a projection towards the past that is understood by way of a historical approach. |
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