Debating the End of History: The Marketplace, Utopia, and the Fragmentation of Intellectual Life

by David W. Noble

Book Overview

Why do modern people assume that there will be perpetual economic growth? Because, David W. Noble tells us in this provocative study of cultural criticism, such a utopian conviction is the necessary foundation for bourgeois culture. One can imagine the existence of modern middle classes only as long as the capitalist marketplace is expanding. For Noble, the related--and relevant--question is, how can the middle classes believe that a finite earth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816680590
• ISBN13: 9780816680597
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"