Modernity And Progress
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Progress
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Author : Peter Wagner
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2016-01-08
Progress written by Peter Wagner and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-08 with Social Science categories.
The idea of progress guided human expectations and actions for over two centuries. From the Enlightenment onwards, it was widely believed that the condition of humankind could be radically improved. History had embarked on an unstoppable forward trajectory, realizing the promise of freedom and reason. The scientific revolution, the industrial revolution, and the French Revolution, in some views also the socialist revolution, were milestones on this march of progress. But since the late twentieth century the idea of progress has largely disappeared from public debate. Sometimes it has been explicitly declared dead. The wide horizon of future possibilities has closed. The best we can hope for, some say, is to avoid regress. What happened to progress? Why did we stop believing in it, if indeed we did? This book offers answers to these questions. It reviews both the conceptual history of progress and the social and political experiences with progress over the past two centuries, and it comes to a surprising conclusion: The idea of progress was misconceived from its beginnings, and the failure of progress in practice was a result of this flawed conception. The experiences of the past half century, in turn, has allowed us to rethink progress in a more adequate way. Rather than the end of progress, they may herald the beginning of a new, reconstructed idea of progress.
Modernity And Progress
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Author : Ronald Berman
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2007-03-18
Modernity And Progress written by Ronald Berman and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
"From the 1920s and for a generation thereafter, understandings of time, place, and civilization were subjected to a barrage of new conceptions. Berman probes the work of three writers--Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Orwell--who wrestled with one or more of these issues in ways of lasting significance. At stake for each is a sense of what constitutes true civilization"--Back cover.
Modernity At The Beginning Of The 21st Century
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Author : Volker Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2008-12-11
Modernity At The Beginning Of The 21st Century written by Volker Schmidt and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-11 with Social Science categories.
Modernity is back on sociology's agenda. From the beginnings of sociology as an academic discipline, questions surrounding the meaning and consequences of modernity have fascinated generations of sociologists. The initial interest in the concept was inspired by a sense of a deep rupture (and crisis) afflicting European society, a sense that society was approaching something fundamentally different from the past, an entirely new form of societal organization that bore little resemblance to anything known before. Where exactly this transformation was headed was by no means clear, but around the 18th century a growing number of European intellectuals and scholars realized that the changes that had been in the making since the late 15th century were irreversible and could not be contained in any particular region or confined to particular sectors of society, but would ultimately transform all spheres of life. Like other thinkers, sociologists observed this transformation with awe, and their attitude towards it has always been ambivalent. The 20th century, during which modernity gradually began to break through globally, was also a century during which many sociologists became increasingly disillusioned with the promises of "the modern project". But with the exhaustion of the energies of "postmodernism", the intellectual movement that wanted to bury modernity, the interest in modernity began to resurface again; not least because it became increasingly clear that the world is far from approaching a societal condition pointing systematically beyond modernity. Instead, we are witnessing an intensification of modernization processes around the world. But what is modernity, anyway? The aim of the present volume is to contribute to the ongoing discussion about the meaning of modernity and about the significance of modernization processes in non-Western societies. As befits a subject matter as controversial and complex at this one, the book's chapters offer no conclusive answers to the questions they raise and address. The debate about modernity must and will continue, and one hopes that it will be conducted in an atmosphere of mutual respect despite sometimes fierce disagreement between the participants. For only if we listen to each other can we make genuine intellectual progress.
After Progress
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Author : Martin Savransky
language : en
Publisher: Sociological Review Monographs
Release Date : 2022-09-26
After Progress written by Martin Savransky and has been published by Sociological Review Monographs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-26 with categories.
The notion of "progress" is arguably the defining idea of modernity: a civilisational imagery of a boundless, linear, and upwards trajectory towards a future that, guided by reason and technology, will be "better" than the present. It was this notion that placed techno-science at the heart of modern political culture, it was in its name that modernity ploughed the Earth, and it was the uneven geography of "progress" that imagined European imperialism as a civilising mission inflicted upon "backward" others for their own sake. In the wake its devastating social, political and ecological histories, this bold and innovative collection argues that the imperative of progress is now one we cannot live with but do not know how to live without. What might it take to learn to think and live after progress? Thinking of progress not as one modern value among others but as the very mode of evaluation from which modern values are derived, this book delivers a range of essays and experiments in the radical revaluation of our values. By exploring the complex connections between progress and knowledge, ecology, politics, science, culture, and justice, this original book offers critical and speculative perspectives on the making of social life after progress.
Plurality And Progress
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Author : Peter Wagner
language : en
Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Release Date : 2010
Plurality And Progress written by Peter Wagner and has been published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Philosophy categories.
Europeans - or "Westerners" - have long been inclined to think that their form of socio-political organisation, often referred to as "modern", is superior to others in both normative and functional terms. In both political philosophy and comparative-historical sociology, however, this claim has recently been critically debated and re-assessed. After reviewing the recent debate, this volume addresses the following key questions: if there is now a plurality of forms of modern socio-political organisation, what does this entail for our time-honoured idea of progress, or in other words, for our hope that the future world can be better than the present one? And: if despite all nuance our concept of modernity is in some way inextricably tied to the history of Europe, how can we compare different forms of modernity in a 'symmetric', non-biased or non-Eurocentric way? These questions gain a particular sense of urgency in our era of so-called globalisation, of radical time-space compression, because the claims and expectations of modernity have now become inescapable in ever more walks of life and for many more people than ever.
Chinese Visions Of Progress 1895 To 1949
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Author : Thomas Fröhlich
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-05-11
Chinese Visions Of Progress 1895 To 1949 written by Thomas Fröhlich and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-11 with Social Science categories.
Chinese Visions of Progress, 1895 to 1949 offers a panoramic study of Chinese reflections on “progress,” its multifaceted expressions, contesting interpretations, highly optimistic implications, but also the criticism it encountered.
The End Of Progress
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Author : Amy Allen
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2016-01-12
The End Of Progress written by Amy Allen and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-12 with Philosophy categories.
While post- and decolonial theorists have thoroughly debunked the idea of historical progress as a Eurocentric, imperialist, and neocolonialist fallacy, many of the most prominent contemporary thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School—Jürgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, and Rainer Forst—have defended ideas of progress, development, and modernity and have even made such ideas central to their normative claims. Can the Frankfurt School's goal of radical social change survive this critique? And what would a decolonized critical theory look like? Amy Allen fractures critical theory from within by dispensing with its progressive reading of history while retaining its notion of progress as a political imperative, so eloquently defended by Adorno. Critical theory, according to Allen, is the best resource we have for achieving emancipatory social goals. In reimagining a decolonized critical theory after the end of progress, she rescues it from oblivion and gives it a future.
The Problem Of Technical And Moral Practical Progress In Modernity
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Author : John Charlick Keane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The Problem Of Technical And Moral Practical Progress In Modernity written by John Charlick Keane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Capitalism categories.
The Arab Cocoon
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Author : Ṭāriq Aḥmad Ḥajjī
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
The Arab Cocoon written by Ṭāriq Aḥmad Ḥajjī and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Arab countries categories.
This book explores the reasons behind the refusal of Arabic-speaking societies to join the march towards modernity and progress and tackles the Arab complex, from a number of different standpoints. It first defines civilization and progress, and describes the obstacles that impeded on mankind's modern march. After specifying the nautre of these impediments in the context of the Arabic-speaking societies, the book proceeds to find solutions which would enable these societies to progress towards modern civilation. This book fulfills the growing need in North America, Europe and elsewhere to understand the Arab culture and mind. Writing in an informative and accessible stlye this book offers the depth needed to understand and deal with expanding anti-modernity culture, and consequently reduce classes between the Arab and Western worlds.
The Myth Of Progress
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Author : Tom Wessels
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2013
The Myth Of Progress written by Tom Wessels and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Science categories.
A provocative critique of Western progress from a scientific perspective