Pocket • 1994 • Engelsk

The History of the Idea of Progress

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Av Robert Nisbet

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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 referen...Vis mer

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9781560007135

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Transaction Publishers

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1994

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Engelsk

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The History of the Idea of Progress

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Pocket

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