| The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics Revised Edition Contributor(s): Lasch, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393307956 ISBN-13: 9780393307955 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 1991 Annotation: 'An extraordinary book by one of our wisest social and political observers, Lasch's brilliant analysis of our secular dreams and hopes, our blind spots and foolishness, ought to help us all figure out what we believe and where we are headed as this century comes to an end.'--Robert Coles |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 303.44 |
| LCCN: 90033714 |
| Lexile Measure: 1440 |
| Physical Information: 1.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (1.50 lbs) 592 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): 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. |
