Rethinking Progress: Movements, Forces, and Ideas at the End of the Twentieth Century

by Jeffrey C. Alexander

2020-11-23 10:10:00

Rethinking Progressprovides a challenging reevaluation of one of the crucial ideas of Western civilization; the notion of progress. Progress often seems to have become self-defeating, producing ecological deserts, overpopulated cities, exhausted reso... Read more
Rethinking Progressprovides a challenging reevaluation of one of the crucial ideas of Western civilization; the notion of progress. Progress often seems to have become self-defeating, producing ecological deserts, overpopulated cities, exhausted resources, decaying cultures, and widespread feelings of alienation. The contributors, from all over the world, present their diversified perspectives on the fate of progress. Less

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File size9.21 X 6.14 X 0.9 in
Print pages284
PublisherRoutledge
Publication date August 23, 1990
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780044457534
Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University and Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale....

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