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The Progress Trap
- The Modern Left and the False Authority of History
Engelsk Hardback
The Progress Trap
- The Modern Left and the False Authority of History
Engelsk Hardback

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The idea of progress, one of the animating ideas of Western civilization, has now gone global. From Marxism and neoliberalism to today’s mutant identity politics, it offers a framework of knowledge and confidence: an assurance that things will get better and that history is on our side. However, in doing this it creates a form of authority that is simultaneously imaginary and dishonest, resting on confidence in a future that is really contingent and unknowable. In The Progress Trap, Ben Cobley looks at this progressive mindset as a form of power, conferring a right to act and control others. ‘Change’, ‘transformation’ and the ‘new’ are the superior values, meaning destruction of the old: people, cultures and nature. It is a trap into which nearly all of us fall at times, so attractive are its stories and familiar its techniques. Hard-hitting but thoughtful, the book is a meditation on the sinister consequences of the progressive way of being: for ourselves, for our democracy, for our art and for the pursuit of real knowledge.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9781509567621
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1509567623
Udg. Dato:
30 maj 2025
Længde:
27mm
Bredde:
236mm
Højde:
161mm
Forlag:
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Oplagsdato:
30 maj 2025
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