Beschreibung:
This book examines the social production of social worlds - present, past and yet-to-come - employing central concepts in sociology to draw lessons from the collapse of Graeco-Roman antiquity for our own world of virus and ecological disasters, exploring both the emergence of capitalism and its possible end.
Preface: World-Making 1. Groundwork: Origins of Worlds, Space and Time 2. Imagining Neverlands 3. The Dark Centuries 4. Beowulf and the Beo-Monde 5. Building Monsters 6. Endwork: Second to the right, and straight on till morning