History of the Idea of Progress

Reducere. Can we continue to believe in progress? In this sobering analysis of the Western human condition, Christopher Lasch seeks the answer in a history o...

Reducere. Progress Unchained reinterprets the history of the idea of progress using parallels between evolutionary biology and changing views of human histor...

Reducere. The Everlasting Man: The Original 1925 Edition What, if anything, is it that makes the human uniquely human? This, in part, is the question that G....

Reducere. Bradley C. S. Watson has devoted a significant part of his career to studying the nature of American progressivism as it formed in the twentieth ce...

Reducere. Published posthumously in 1965, this book contains various essays by R. G. Collingwood concerning history, philosophy, and their relationship. The ...

Reducere. This volume presents a selection of the philosophical papers which Richard Rorty has written over the past decade, and complements three previous v...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Christopher DawsonIn this volume Christopher Dawson outlines his main thesis for the history of culture, which was his life...

The idea that American education has been steered by progressive values is celebrated by liberals and deplored by conservatives, but both sides acc...

Reducere. Oswald Spengler (1880--1936) is best known for The Decline of the West, in which he propounded his pathbreaking philosophy of world history and pen...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Principle of Hope is one of the great works of the human spirit. It is a critical history of the utopian vision and a profound explo...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom its beginning, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879-1918) was documented in photographs. The photographic record of the scho...

This book presents the history of the automobile and its evolution. The 19th century is marked by unparalleled advances in science and its applicat...

Reducere. DescriptionSusan Buck-Morss asks: What does revolution look like today? How will the idea of revolution survive the inadequacy of the formula, "pro...

Reducere. The Principle of Hope is one of the great works of the human spirit. It is a critical history of the utopian vision and a profound exploration of t...

Reducere. Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders--lawyers provided by the go...

Contributor(s): Author: Leo TolstoyThis profound analysis of the nature of art is the culmination of a series of essays and polemics on issues of m...

Vacillating between the longue dur e and microhistory, between ideological critique and historical sympathy, between the contrary formalisms of clo...

Reducere. A quick succession of changes - some entirely expected, some less so - has drastically reshaped the domain of preserving and exhibiting film herita...

Our contemporary celebration of difference, respect for pluralism, and avowal of identity politics have come to be regarded as the hallmarks of a p...

Reducere. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice[Calasso's] flow of associations leaves you feeling not out of your depth, but smarter and better read....

Reducere. "I am a work in progress, just like everyone else."Although the Dea Vitae cult has been evicted from Thalia Island, Lara J. Clarke and her grandfat...

Reducere. America is in danger of losing the constitutional republic created by the Founding Fathers. Since the beginning of the progressive era, the federal...

Reducere. America is in danger of losing the constitutional republic created by the Founding Fathers. Since the beginning of the progressive era, the federal...

Reducere. Far too ignorant of the histories of the rest of the world, being aware of only the accomplishments of Greece, Rome and Europe, Westerners have bee...

Reducere. Discover the lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright-a story for kids 6 to 12 about making ideas take flightThe Wright brothers were the first people ev...