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Progress Unchained

- Ideas of Evolution, Human History and the Future
Af: Peter J. Bowler Engelsk Hardback

Progress Unchained

- Ideas of Evolution, Human History and the Future
Af: Peter J. Bowler Engelsk Hardback
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Progress Unchained reinterprets the history of the idea of progress using parallels between evolutionary biology and changing views of human history. Early concepts of progress in both areas saw it as the ascent of a linear scale of development toward a final goal. The ''chain of being'' defined a hierarchy of living things with humans at the head, while social thinkers interpreted history as a development toward a final paradise or utopia. Darwinism reconfigured biological progress as a ''tree of life'' with multiple lines of advance not necessarily leading to humans, each driven by the rare innovations that generate entirely new functions. Popular writers such as H. G. Wells used a similar model to depict human progress, with competing technological innovations producing ever-more rapid changes in society. Bowler shows that as the idea of progress has become open-ended and unpredictable, a variety of alternative futures have been imagined.
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Progress Unchained reinterprets the history of the idea of progress using parallels between evolutionary biology and changing views of human history. Early concepts of progress in both areas saw it as the ascent of a linear scale of development toward a final goal. The ''chain of being'' defined a hierarchy of living things with humans at the head, while social thinkers interpreted history as a development toward a final paradise or utopia. Darwinism reconfigured biological progress as a ''tree of life'' with multiple lines of advance not necessarily leading to humans, each driven by the rare innovations that generate entirely new functions. Popular writers such as H. G. Wells used a similar model to depict human progress, with competing technological innovations producing ever-more rapid changes in society. Bowler shows that as the idea of progress has become open-ended and unpredictable, a variety of alternative futures have been imagined.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 314
ISBN-13: 9781108842556
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1108842550
Kategori: Samfundsvidenskabelig idéhistorie
Udg. Dato: 4 mar 2021
Længde: 25mm
Bredde: 235mm
Højde: 160mm
Forlag: Cambridge University Press
Oplagsdato: 4 mar 2021
Forfatter(e): Peter J. Bowler
Forfatter(e) Peter J. Bowler

Kategori Samfundsvidenskabelig idéhistorie

ISBN-13 9781108842556

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 314

Udgave

Længde 25mm

Bredde 235mm

Højde 160mm

Udg. Dato 4 mar 2021

Oplagsdato 4 mar 2021

Forlag Cambridge University Press