Based on Robert Heilbroner's New York Public Library/Oxford University Press Lectures given in May 1994, this work focuses on the question of humankind's future. The first lecture treats depictions of the future that dominated all cvilizations in the 17th century. The second lecture deals with the early 19th and 20th centuries - an age of buoyant secular expectation which provided material improvement for all human kind. The third lecture shows that pessimism about the future has returned and that there is little turning to religion for solace.
- ISBN10 0195090748
- ISBN13 9780195090741
- Publish Date 26 January 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 May 2000
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 142
- Language English