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True and Only Heaven : Progress and Its Critics by Christopher Lasch (1991, Hardcover)
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Examines two opposing world-views of progress within Western civilization
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393029166
ISBN-139780393029161
eBay Product ID (ePID)1476533
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Book TitleTrue and only Heaven : Progress and Its Critics
Number of Pages1 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1991
TopicSocial, General, United States / General
GenrePhilosophy, Social Science, History
AuthorChristopher Lasch
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.7 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length6.4 in
Item Width9.5 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN90-033714
Dewey Edition20
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal303.44/0973
Synopsis'An extraordinary book by one of our wisest social and political observers, Lasch's brilliant analysis of our secular dreams and hopes, our blind spots and foolishness, ought to help us all figure out what we believe and where we are headed as this century comes to an end.'--Robert Coles, 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 egalitarianism, workmanship, loyalty and recognizes the danger of resentment of the material goods of others. We must recover these ideals in order to recover the true and only heaven
LC Classification NumberE169.1.L376 1991
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