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Author | : Robert Nisbet |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 2017-07-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351515462 |
The idea of progress from the Enlightenment to postmodernism is still very much with us. In intellectual discourse, journals, popular magazines, and radio and talk shows, the debate between those who are "progressivists" and those who are "declinists" is as spirited as it was in the late seventeenth century. In History of the Idea of Progress, Robert Nisbet traces the idea of progress from its origins in Greek, Roman, and medieval civilizations to modern times. It is a masterful frame of reference for understanding the present world. Nisbet asserts there are two fundamental building blocks necessary to Western doctrines of human advancement: the idea of growth, and the idea of necessity. He sees Christianity as a key element in both secular and spiritual evolution, for it conveys all the ingredients of the modern idea of progress: the advancement of the human race in time, a single time frame for all the peoples and epochs of the past and present, the conception of time as linear, and the envisagement of the future as having a Utopian end. In his new introduction, Nisbet shows why the idea of progress remains of critical importance to studies of social evolution and natural history. He provides a contemporary basis for many disciplines, including sociology, economics, philosophy, religion, politics, and science. History of the Idea of Progress continues to be a major resource for scholars in all these areas.
Author | : Ronald Wright |
Publisher | : House of Anansi |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Civilization |
ISBN | : 0887847064 |
Each time history repeats itself, so it's said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water — the very elements of life. The most urgent questions of the twenty-first century are: where will this growth lead? can it be consolidated or sustained? and what kind of world is our present bequeathing to our future?In his #1 bestseller A Short History of Progress Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilization, a 10,000-year experiment we have participated in but seldom controlled. Only by understanding the patterns of triumph and disaster that humanity has repeated around the world since the Stone Age can we recognize the experiment's inherent dangers, and, with luck and wisdom, shape its outcome.
Author | : Nichola Boughey |
Publisher | : Heinemann Secondary |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2008-02-01 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780435318949 |
History in Progress features clearly differentiated tasks that are designed to support and encourage the progression of pupils of all ability levels. A wealth of stimulating activities and accessible information will motivate your pupils and fill them with confidence, whilst building the key historical skills necessary for GCSE.
Author | : Martin Collier |
Publisher | : Heinemann Secondary |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2009-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780435319014 |
History in Progress features clearly differentiated tasks that are designed to support and encourage the progression of pupils of all ability levels. A wealth of stimulating activities and accessible information will motivate your pupils and fill them with confidence, whilst building the key historical skills necessary for GCSE.
Author | : Rosemary Rees |
Publisher | : Heinemann Secondary |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780435318505 |
Helps you to succeed in History at Key Stage 3. This work teaches key akills via the skills bank, which provides targeted progression across KS3 in preparation of GCSE. It focuses on chronology and a greater balance of British, European, and World History, to increase the relevance of the subject.
Author | : Christopher Dawson |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2012-08-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813218195 |
Progress and Religion was perhaps the most influential of all Christopher Dawson's books, establishing him as an interpreter of history and a historian of ideas.
Author | : Olive Beaupré Miller |
Publisher | : Dawn Chorus Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2009-10 |
Genre | : World history |
ISBN | : 9781597313650 |
Originally published: Lake Bluff, IL: Bookhouse for Children, c1929-33.
Author | : David Spadafora |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1990-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780300046717 |
The idea of progress stood at the very center of the intellectual world of eighteenth-century Britain, closely linked to every major facet of the British Enlightenment as well as to the economic revolutions of the period. Drawing on hundreds of eighteenth-century books and pamphlets, David Spadafora here provides the most extensive discussion ever written of this prevailing sense of historical optimism.
Author | : Sidney Pollard |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Johan Norberg |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017-04-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1786072327 |
A Book of the Year for The Economist and the Observer Our world seems to be collapsing. The daily news cycle reports the deterioration: divisive politics across the Western world, racism, poverty, war, inequality, hunger. While politicians, journalists and activists from all sides talk about the damage done, Johan Norberg offers an illuminating and heartening analysis of just how far we have come in tackling the greatest problems facing humanity. In the face of fear-mongering, darkness and division, the facts are unequivocal: the golden age is now.