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The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics - Couverture rigide

Lasch, Christopher

 
9780393029161: The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0393029166 ISBN 13 : 9780393029161
Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 1991

Synopsis

Can we continue to believe in progress? In this sobering analysis of the Western human condition, Christopher Lasch seeks the answer in a history of the struggle between two ideas: one is the idea of progress - an idea driven by the conviction that human desire is insatiable and requires ever larger production forces. Opposing this materialist view is the idea that condemns a boundless appetite for more and better goods and distrusts "improvements" that only feed desire. Tracing the opposition to the idea of progress from Rousseau through Montesquieu to Carlyle, Max Weber and G.D.H. Cole, Lasch finds much that is desirable in a turn toward moral conservatism, toward a lower-middle-class culture that egalitarianism, workmanship, loyalty and recognizes the danger of resentment of the material goods of others. We must recover these ideals in order to recover "the true and only heaven"

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À propos de l'auteur

Christopher Lasch (1932–1994), professor of history at the University of Rochester, wrote, among many other works, The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics and the best-selling Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy.

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Éditeur
WW Norton & Co
Date d'édition
1991
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0393029166
ISBN 13 
9780393029161
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
592
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