Das Projekt Futurologie: Uber Zukunft und Fortschritt in der Bundesrepublik 1952-1982 The futurology project: About future and progress in West Germany, 1952-1982

摘要

The future has become a central topic in the historical sciences. A specific focus has been placed on the field of futures studies. This field, also called future(s) research and futurology, attracted public and political attention in the 1960s and 1970s. Historical appraisals have explored transnational networks and have shown that, particularly for the West German case, the field emerged from competing episte-mologies and thought styles. Research highlighted processes ol change around 1970, particularly an ecologization of the field (e.g., Schmidt-Ger-nig, "Forecasting the Future," 2003; Seefried, Zukuenfte, 2017; Andersson, The Future of the World, 2018).