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Progress - A Reconstruction (Hardcover)
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Progress - A Reconstruction (Hardcover)
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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 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.
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