The Possible
The Possible
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2020
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V. Glăveanu
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这本书探讨了一个显著的人类现象：我们参与可能的能力，超越什么是现在的，可见的，或给定在我们的存在。可能性研究是一个新兴的研究领域，包括各种各样的主题，如创造力、想象力、创新、预期、反事实思维、好奇、意外发现、未来、社会变革、希望、代理和乌托邦等等。目前对这一广阔领域的贡献体现在社会文化和实用主义对差异、立场、观点、对话、行动和文化等概念基础上的可能性的描述。简而言之，这一理论提出，我们对可能性的探索是由我们人类的能力所驱动的，我们可以从多个立场和角度来看待世界，并理解我们所持的任何观点在任何时候都是众多观点中的一种。这样的描述超越了长期存在的可能与真实的二分法，这种枯燥的分离最终将可能性描绘为与现实分离甚至对立的。相反，这本书中提出的可能性理论追溯到这个概念的词源学根源（拉丁语possible -“可以做的”，来自posse -“能够”），并认为它既是人类行动和相互作用的先决条件，也是结果。探索可能性不会发生在我们对世界的体验之外或之外；相反，它从一开始就渗透了它，给它注入了新的意义，最终彻底改变了它。这本书的目的是提供概念，方法和实用的工具，为所有那些有兴趣研究人类的可能性和培养它在教育，工作场所，日常生活和社会。
This book explores an eminently human phenomenon: our capacity to engage with the possible, to go beyond what is present, visible, or given in our existence. Possibility studies are an emerging field of research including topics as diverse as creativity, imagination, innovation, anticipation, counterfactual thinking, wondering, serendipity, the future, social change, hope, agency, and utopia, among others. The present contribution to this wide field is represented by a sociocultural and pragmatist account of the possible grounded in the notions of difference, position, perspective, dialogue, action, and culture. Put simply, this theory proposes that our explorations of the possible are enabled by our human capacity to relate to the world from more than one position and perspective and to understand that any perspective we hold is, at all times, one among many. Such an account transcends the long-standing dichotomy between the possible and the real, a sterile separation that ends up portraying possibility as separate from and even opposed to reality. On the contrary, the theory of the possible advanced in this book goes back to this notion’s etymological roots (the Latin possibilis—“that can be done,” from posse—“to be able”) and considers it as both a precondition and outcome of human action and interaction. Exploring the possible doesn’t take place outside of or in addition to our experience of the world; rather, it infiltrates it from the start, infuses it with new meanings, and ends up transforming it altogether. This book aims to offer conceptual, methodological, and practical tools for all those interested in studying human possibility and cultivating it in education, the workplace, everyday life, and society.