The Progress Trap: The Modern Left and the False Authority of History - Couverture rigide

Cobley, Ben

 
9781509567621: The Progress Trap: The Modern Left and the False Authority of History
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ISBN 10 : 1509567623 ISBN 13 : 9781509567621
Editeur : Polity Press, 2025

Synopsis

The idea of progress, one of the animating ideas of Western civilization, has now gone global. From Marxism and neoliberalism to today's mutant identity politics, it offers a framework of knowledge and confidence: an assurance that things will get better and that history is on our side. However, in doing this it creates a form of authority that is simultaneously imaginary and dishonest, resting on confidence in a future that is really contingent and unknowable.

In The Progress Trap, Ben Cobley looks at this progressive mindset as a form of power, conferring a right to act and control others. 'Change', 'transformation' and the 'new' are the superior values, meaning destruction of the old: people, cultures and nature. It is a trap into which nearly all of us fall at times, so attractive are its stories and familiar its techniques.

Hard-hitting but thoughtful, the book is a meditation on the sinister consequences of the progressive way of being: for ourselves, for our democracy, for our art and for the pursuit of real knowledge.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ben Cobley is a journalist and former Labour Party activist. He is the author of The Tribe: The Liberal-Left and the System of Diversity.

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Éditeur
Polity Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1509567623
ISBN 13 
9781509567621
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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