Matthew W Slaboch

A Road to Nowhere

The Idea of Progress and Its Critics

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Produktbeschreibung

Matthew W. Slaboch is a postdoctoral research fellow at the James Madison Program in the Department of Politics at Princeton University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780812249804
• ISBN-10: 0812249801
• Artikelnr.: 47974933

Autorenporträt

Matthew W. Slaboch is a postdoctoral research fellow at the James Madison Program in the Department of Politics at Princeton University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. "The Same, But Otherwise": Arthur Schopenhauer as a Critic of
"Progress"
Chapter 2. The Autocrat and the Anarchist: Nicholas I, Leo Tolstoy, and the
Problem of "Progress"
Chapter 3. "The Path to Hell": Henry (and Brooks) Adams on History and
Politics
Chapter 4. Critics of the Idea of Progress in an Age of Extremes: Three
Twentieth-Century Voices
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments