Gerard Delanty Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Sussex University. His recent books include (with Neal Harris) Capitalism and its Critics (Routledge, 2022) and Critical Theory and Social Transformation (Routledge 2020).
"""Do we have a future? Does it matter? Our present is being defined and redefined by the future. Enlightenment confidence in reason and progress has evaporated and our sense of catastrophe has produced multiple responses including dystopia, and retrotopia. However, Gerard Delanty argues that we must not see the future only as our fate. In his masterly overview of past and present visions of the future, Delanty's diagnosis and prescriptions are indeed timely."" Bryan S. Turner, Catholic University Australia, Sydney (Australia) ""Ideas of and about the future are as necessary now, in our own transformative times, as they were in earlier epochs of great transformation, as during the Axial Age or the 18th-century birth of modernity. Delanty's critical examination of some dominant theories and approaches is an instructive and illuminating guide to current thinking about the future. An exemplary book, as timely as it is necessary."" Krishan Kumar, University Professor and William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia (US)"