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Progress and regression / Rahel Jaeggi ; translated by Robert Savage.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jaeggi, Rahel, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Fortschritt und Regression. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Progress.
- Regression (Civilization).
- Social change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 223 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- In the tradition of the great dialecticians, Rahel Jaeggi revitalizes the idea of progress by confronting its opposite: regression. Reckoning with growing inequality, ecological erosion, and assaults on critical thinking and reason itself, Jaeggi argues for a vision of progress capable of transcending difference and promoting universal welfare.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- What is progress?
- Reform or revolution : continuity or discontinuity of progress
- In context : moral progress and social change
- Crisis and conflict : the dynamics of social change
- Change for the better? Progress as a self-enriching learning process
- Betrayal of the possible : on the anatomy of regression.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0674301951
- 067430196X
- OCLC:
- 1534602171
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