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In this book, after discussing the fundamental problems of current science and other philosophic concepts, beginning with controversies between Heraclitus and Parmenides, Ilya Prigogine launches into a message of great hope: the future has not been determined. Contrary to globalisation and the apparent contemporary mass culture society, individual behaviour is beginning to increasingly become the key factor which governs the evolution of both the world and society as a whole. It is a message that challenges existing widespread views, implicitly or explicitly, through mass communication; moreover the importance of the individual's actions implies a reflection of each person on the responsibilities that each one assumes when taking or acting upon a decision. This responsibility is associated with the freedom of thought as well as a critical analysis of fashions, customs, preconceived ideas, and ideologies, externally imposed: exactly contrary to the ideas of those who wish us to be "perfect consumers" in a world dominated only by monetary wealth. Challenging this drive towards the elimination of freedom of thought in the individual is now imperative if we are to save man and his planet from catastrophe, which seems to be ever imminent and (unfortunately) irreversible. This last book of Ilya Prigogine provides a small, disputable, but nonetheless valuable contribution towards that end.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Is Future Given?
• Author: Ilya Prigogine
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 160
• EAN: 9789812385079
• ISBN: 981238507X
• ID: 05067609
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Weight: 330 g
• Dimensions: 160 × 238 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. November 2003

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