Rethinking Progress: Movements, Forces, and Ideas at the End of the Twentieth Century

By J. Alexander and Piotr Sztompka

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0044457537
• ISBN13: 9780044457534
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"