Publication details

Inspirace - Pohled do nejistého plamene

Title in English The Inspiration - The Penetrating Gaze into the Uncertain Flame
Authors

BINKA Bohuslav

Year of publication 2007
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Ekonom
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Web http://ekonom.ihned.cz/2-22332000-400000_d-79
Keywords historicist predictions, sustaineble development, environmental pessimism, technological optimism, oil peak, petrol
Description The article is a review and polemics with the book of geologist Václav Cílek and physicist Martin Kašík Uncertain Flame – guide to the world of gas. The author of the review values the nonideological approach of both scientists and their capability to polemize both environmental pessimism of the 70s and technological optimism of neoliberal economy. The polemic part of the review is focused on very arbitrary work with the conceptual appliance of some social science and the tendency in terms of society development to resemble to historic prognosis.

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