Name: The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
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The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics

Christopher Lasch

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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.

Book Details

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: Sep 1st, 1991
Pages: 592
Language: English
Edition: Revised - undefined
Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.40in - 1.60in - 1.50lb
EAN: 9780393307955
Categories: • Sociology - General

About the Author

Lasch, Christopher: - Christopher Lasch (1932-1994), professor of history at the University of Rochester, wrote, among many other works, The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics and the best-selling Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy.

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"our unstated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all." 5/5 Christopher Lasch, The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics (1991)

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A profound and intellectually honest work of breathtaking historical scope that could easily set the terms of political debate in a post-cold-war world in which the ideologies of right and left seem totally exhausted. . . . A cleareyed study of our usable past.-- "Kirkus Reviews"

Powerful and moving. . . . A magisterial synthesis.--Michael Stern "San Francisco Chronicle"

Christopher Lasch has written a great book about the most important things. As a major contribution to public discourse, The True and Only Heaven will be at the center of discussion for years to come.--Robert Bellah, coauthor of Habits of the Heart

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