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The Challenge of Progress - Theory Between Critique and Ideology (Hardcover)
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The Challenge of Progress - Theory Between Critique and Ideology (Hardcover)
Series: Current Perspectives in Social Theory
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Globalization has accelerated the process of social, political,
cultural, and especially economic transformations since the 1990s.
In recent decades, this has cast doubt over the validity and
reliability of many working assumptions about the nature and logic
of progress in modern societies, at all levels of social structure
and complexity. In The Challenge of Progress, editor Harry F. Dahms
and a series of contributors explore how this doubt has been
magnified, looking at how the institutions and constellations
between business, labor and government have begun to weaken. The
essays included in this volume examine the foundations, nature and
contradictions of progress in the modern era. Anchored by - but not
exclusively focused on - a debate of Amy Allen's recent book, The
End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical
Theory (2016), the eleven essays identify, analyse and confront the
challenges of progress, looking across social class, philosophy,
history and culture in their analyses. For researchers and students
across social theory, this is an unmissable volume confronting the
present and future of our societies. Examining the choices of
modern society, Dahms and contributors ask: what are the social
costs of "progress"?
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