ISBN:
9780044457534
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0044457537
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9780203161906
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0203161904
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 268 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Rethinking progress
DDC:
303.44
Keywords:
Progress Congresses
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Progress Congresses
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Progress Congresses
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Political sociology
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Political sociology
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Progress
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic books
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Electronic books Conference papers and proceedings
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
pt. 1. Beyond progress and modernity -- pt. 2. Rethinking the agents of progress -- pt. 3. Rethinking the mechanisms of progress -- pt. 4. New concepts of progress.
Description / Table of Contents:
Pt. 1. Beyond progress and modernitypt. 2. Rethinking the agents of progress -- pt. 3. Rethinking the mechanisms of progress -- pt. 4. New concepts of progress.
Note:
"This book is the outcome of a conference organized by the editors at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland ... June 28 and July 1, 1988"--Pref
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GB90-2093
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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