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Despite of the Nobel Prize of Literature and her wide-ranging
literary production, Elfriede Jelinek is still not widely known in
the English-speaking world. The essays collected here demonstrate
the range and significance of this major literary voice, addressing
Jelinek as a master of modernist prose, of post-modern critiques of
literary genres, of stage and screen, and of feminist and
antifiscist criticism.
Does the present generation have a moral obligation to conserve
resources for future generations? Must we accept drastic reductions
in our standard of living, and give up the ideals of individual
liberty and technological progress in order to preserve the
environment?PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE offers an unfashionably
optimistic answer to these questions: that future generations
cannot have a right to a share of existing resources, because only
living persons can have rights. Rejecting the sacrifices that most
traditional ethical principles would require of us, it advocates,
instead, that members of the present generation may legitmately use
all of the resources at their disposal to realize their own
values.All that a genuine concern for the fate of future
generations requires is a continuing commitment to the ideals of
freedom and progress. If we reject these ideals now, we may be able
to conserve a meager supply of resources for the future. However,
the price will be fearsomely high, for we will have seriously
hampered any" attempt to improve the lot of future generations or
to bequeath to posterity the best world that the present generation
can create.
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