What Is Progress (eBook)

Aldo Schiavone (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
128 Seiten
Europa Editions (Verlag)
978-1-60945-679-5 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;Historian Schiavone mixes philosophy, politics, and anthropology in this stimulating inquiry into the 'paradigm of progress.'"e; -Publishers WeeklyToday, many believe that progress is a word to be avoided, a relic from a past, the dangerous product of an era of intellectual naivety that would be best forgotten. Yet, the idea of progress is rooted in a human impulse that is both profound and essential, a way of interpreting history without which our ability to plan the future-and our very identity-would be at stake.Written just before the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic-which is now putting its argument to the hardest of tests-this lucid essay explores how science and technology have been, and can still be, a powerful engine for human advancement.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.7.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Schlagworte: Enlightenment • historical essays • History and Philosophy of Science • history of humankind • History of technology • human advancement • human civilization • Humanism • Philosophy • Progress • sapiens • Stephen Greenblatt • Steven Pinker
• ISBN-10: 1-60945-679-3 / 1609456793
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60945-679-5 / 9781609456795