Format:
1 Online-Ressource (584 p.)
Edition:
Reprinted from Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, vol. 152 (1976)., Reprint 2020
ISBN:
9780520313545
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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Foreword
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Preface
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Introduction
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PART I. Historical, Ideological, and Evolutionary Aspects
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Introduction
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1. The Enlightenment Idea of Progress Revisited
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2. The Idea of Progress in Historiography and Social Thought Since the Enlightenment
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3. The Idea of Progress in Communist Ideology
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4. Ideas of Progress in the Third World
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5. The Evolutionary Concept of Progress
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PART II. The Progress and Problems of Science
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Introduction
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6. Progress in Our Understanding of Biology
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7. Progress in Physics: The Game of Intellectual Leapfrog
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8. Fear of Progress in Biology
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9. Toward a Theory of Scientific Progress
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10. Progress in Social Science
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11. Contemporary Historiography: Progress, Paradigms, and the Regression Toward Positivism
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PART III. The Prospects and Problems of Material Progress
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Introduction
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12. The Retreat from Economic Advance: Changing Ideas About Economic Progress
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13. Can Technology Assure Unending Material Progress?
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14. Natural Resource Limits and the Future of Economic Progress
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15. Poverty and Progress
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PART IV. Political and Social Aspects
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Introduction
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16. The Modern State and the Idea of Progress
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17. Progress and Public Policy
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18. Social Progress and Liberal Democracy
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19. Changing Popular Attitudes Toward Progress
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PART V. Progress and Humanistic Understanding
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Introduction
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20. Conceptions of the Self in an Age of Progress
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21. The Arts and the Idea of Progress
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22. The Costs of Utopia
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23. The Idea of Progress in Twentieth-Century Theology
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24. The Return of the Sacred: The Argument About the Future of Religion
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25. The Idea of Progress: An Ethical Appraisal
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Contributors
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Index
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In English
Additional Edition:
9780520309081
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print 9780520309081
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520313545
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