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The present era seems to be a transitional period in terms of cultural time orientation. The progressive and dynamic future, which has been so much and for so long the temporal horizon of our civilization of modernity, seems in the 1970s to have lost much of its glitter, glamour, and magnetic appeal as a source of new waves of great expectations. As it becomes emptied of meaning for contemporary society, the future recedes in existential significance for contemporaries, and the historical past is becoming salient in its place.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. It is one of the hardest to define.
—Simone Weil (1952, p. 43)
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Tiryakian, E.A. (1980). Sociological Dimensions of Uprootedness. In: Coelho, G.V., Ahmed, P.I. (eds) Uprooting and Development. Current Topics in Mental Health. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3794-2_7
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