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The Essential Herman Kahn
In Defense of Thinking
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2009
Summary
By the time of his untimely death in 1983, Herman Kahn was recognized by both friends and intellectual adversaries as 'one of the world's most creative and best minds.' The current growing resurgence of interest in Kahn's ideas and intellectual legacy demonstrates the enduring relevance of his work. Yet, in spite of the constant influence of his arguments, there is a shortage of books summarizing Kahn's essential contributions, and thus his work is not as well known as it should be. The Essential Herman Kahn is an attempt to cope with this predicament and offer the public for the first time an anthology consisting of the essence of Kahn's work, organized thematically. The two decades that have passed since his death allow us today to approach his work undisturbed by the 'sound and fury' of the many public debates and controversies he participated in and to focus on some of the deepest and most enduring dimensions of his intellectual contributions. The anthology will try to bring together, out of the several thousands pages published by Kahn during his life, the 'essential Kahn,' the most relevant, consequential and interesting themes, ideas and arguments defining his legacy. As such it will met the needs of those who are interested in Kahn's work but do not have the time and energy to access his out-of-print books, to make their way through the voluminous number of pages, and then to sort out the essential from the accidental, the perennial from the contextual.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2828-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3514-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
278
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
Chapter 01. In Defense of Thinking No access
Chapter 02. Twelve Nonissues and Twelve Almost Nonissues No access
Chapter 03. The Revolution in Warfare: Continuities and Discontinuities No access
Chapter 04. On Escalation No access
Chapter 05. Seizing the Moral, Political, and Strategic High Ground No access
Chapter 06. The Big Picture—and Some Details: Watersheds of History No access
Chapter 07. Viewing Growth in Context No access
Chapter 08. Four Characteristic Views of Two Basic Images of the Earth-Centered Perspective No access
Chapter 09. Some Current Cultural Contradictions of Economic Growth: The New Emphases No access
Chapter 10. Economic Development: Economic and Cultural Parameter No access
Chapter 11. The Alienated-Affluent Society No access
Chapter 12. The Objectives of Future-Oriented Policy Research No access
Chapter 13. The Agnostic Use of Information and Concepts No access
Chapter 14. Forecasting the Future: History Happens in Straight Lines and Curves No access
Chapter 15. A Methodological Framework: The Alternative World Futures Approach No access
Chapter 16. The Method of Classes of Variables No access
Chapter 17. Ways to Go Wrong No access
Chapter 18. Technological Innovation: Mistakes of Omission and Commission No access
Chapter 19. The Normative Perspective and the Ideology of Tomorrow No access
Chapter 20. Transitional Problems No access
Chapter 21. The Expert and Educated Incapacity No access
Chapater 22. Current Western Cultural Trends No access
Chapter 23. Futurology and the Future of Economic Development No access
Chaptr 24. The Task Ahead No access
Appendix. Herman Kahn: A Bio-Bibliographical Note No access Pages 267 - 272
