After Progress addresses this looming paradigm shift, exploring the shape of history from a perspective on the far side of the coming crisis.
Here, Birnbaum traces the decline and fall of social reform in Europe and America. He shows, for example, that William Howard Taft railed against socialism, by which he meant anything restricting the market.
He advocates a reconsideration of the notion of work, urges that market forces be brought under political control, and stresses the need for education that teaches the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
By exploring the complex connections between progress and knowledge, ecology, politics, science, culture, and justice, this original book offers critical and speculative perspectives on the making of social life after progress.
In After Progress, philosopher Anthony O'Hear argues that we need to temper our optimism and self-assurance, that progress has not been attained without some loss.
After Progress addresses this looming paradigm shift and explores new sources of meaning, value, and hope for the era ahead. Progress is the God of the modern world. What happens once God is dead?