ABSTRACT
This introduction chapter presents the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. In the book and from this pragmatic tradition, the author tries to think and live differently. Change happens slowly and rapidly, as expected and as surprise, happily and unhappily. Even if persons wanted or attempted to remain unchanged, still they would not be able to think and live in the future just as they now do in the present. As a result, each person constantly faces a Herculean labor that is both personal and practical: to determine how to think differently and live differently in the future from how one does at present, and to act now so as to most fully move one's thought and life in this. Author's use of pragmatism and postmodernism has everything to do with action and hope. The context of James and Dewey, the writings of Deleuze, Adorno, and Foucault, are helpful tools for thinking critically and living differently.
