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But since the late twentieth century the idea of progress has largely disappeared from public debate. Sometimes it has been explicitly declared dead. The wide horizon of future possibilities has closed. The best we can hope for, some say, is to avoid regress.
What happened to progress? Why did we stop believing in it, if indeed we did? This book offers answers to these questions. It reviews both the conceptual history of progress and the social and political experiences with progress over the past two centuries, and it comes to a surprising conclusion: The idea of progress was misconceived from its beginnings, and the failure of progress in practice was a result of this flawed conception. The experiences of the past half century, in turn, has allowed us to rethink progress in a more adequate way. Rather than the end of progress, they may herald the beginning of a new, reconstructed idea of progress.
But since the late twentieth century the idea of progress has largely disappeared from public debate. Sometimes it has been explicitly declared dead. The wide horizon of future possibilities has closed. The best we can hope for, some say, is to avoid regress.
What happened to progress? Why did we stop believing in it, if indeed we did? This book offers answers to these questions. It reviews both the conceptual history of progress and the social and political experiences with progress over the past two centuries, and it comes to a surprising conclusion: The idea of progress was misconceived from its beginnings, and the failure of progress in practice was a result of this flawed conception. The experiences of the past half century, in turn, has allowed us to rethink progress in a more adequate way. Rather than the end of progress, they may herald the beginning of a new, reconstructed idea of progress.
Chapter 1: The withering away of progress
Chapter 2: Progress as mechanism: the epistemic-economic complex
Chapter 3: Progress as struggle under conditions of ambivalence
Chapter 4: The idea of progress revisited
Chapter 5: The past half century
Chapter 6: Possible progress today
Bibliographical note
Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Soziologie |
| Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 200 |
| Inhalt: | 200 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9780745691008 |
| ISBN-10: | 0745691005 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Wagner, Peter |
| Hersteller: |
Polity Press
John Wiley & Sons |
| Maße: | 216 x 136 x 17 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Peter Wagner |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 05.01.2016 |
| Gewicht: | 0,252 kg |
Chapter 1: The withering away of progress
Chapter 2: Progress as mechanism: the epistemic-economic complex
Chapter 3: Progress as struggle under conditions of ambivalence
Chapter 4: The idea of progress revisited
Chapter 5: The past half century
Chapter 6: Possible progress today
Bibliographical note
Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Soziologie |
| Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 200 |
| Inhalt: | 200 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9780745691008 |
| ISBN-10: | 0745691005 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Wagner, Peter |
| Hersteller: |
Polity Press
John Wiley & Sons |
| Maße: | 216 x 136 x 17 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Peter Wagner |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 05.01.2016 |
| Gewicht: | 0,252 kg |
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