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Futures Present - Gerard Delanty, Senses of the Future: Conflicting Ideas of the Future in the World Today (Liverpool, Walter de Gruyter, 2024, 213 p.)

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Gerard Delanty, Senses of the Future: Conflicting Ideas of the Future in the World Today (Liverpool, Walter de Gruyter, 2024, 213 p.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2024

Elizabeth Soer*
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne Email: [email protected].
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