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The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics by Christopher Lasch (Paperback, 1992)
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In Lasch's view, what links so many across the political spectrum (including liberals in the middle) is an intransigent faith in progress, despite the calamities of our century and the pervasive evidence that our culture is in decline.
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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 features egalitarianism, workmanship and loyalty, and recognizes the danger of resentment of the material goods of others.Product Identifiers
PublisherWw Norton & Co
ISBN-100393307956
ISBN-139780393307955
eBay Product ID (ePID)96123668
Product Key Features
SubjectHistory of Ideas & Popular Philosophy
LanguageEnglish
TypeTextbook
AuthorChristopher Lasch
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Height211mm
Width140mm
Weight510g
Additional Product Features
Date of Publication12/08/1992
Place of PublicationNew York
Spine38mm
GenreHistory of Ideas & Popular Philosophy
Country of PublicationUnited States
Author BiographyChristopher Lasch (1932-1994) was also the author of The True and Only Heaven, The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, and other books.
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