Rethinking Progress: Movements, Forces, and Ideas at the End of the Twentieth Century

by J. Alexander and Piotr Sztompka

Book Overview

Rethinking Progress provides a challenging reevaluation of one of the crucial ideas of Western civilization; the notion of progress. Progress often seems to have become self-defeating, producing ecological deserts, overpopulated cities, exhausted resources, decaying cultures, and widespread feelings of alienation. The contributors, from all over the world, present their diversified perspectives on the fate of progress.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138997331
• ISBN13: 9781138997332
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"