Progress: A Reconstruction

by Peter Wagner

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The idea of progress guided human expectations and actions for over two centuries. From the Enlightenment onwards, it was widely believed that the condition of humankind could be radically improved. History had embarked on an unstoppable forward trajectory, realizing the promise of freedom and reason. The scientific revolution, the industrial revolution, and the French Revolution, in some views also the socialist revolution, were milestones on this march 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...Read more
  • ISBN10 0745690998
  • ISBN13 9780745690995
  • Publish Date 27 November 2015
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Polity Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 200
  • Language English