Why do modern people assume that there will be perpetual economic growth? Because, David W. Noble tells us in this provocative study of cultural criticism, such a utopian conviction is the necessary foundation for bourgeois culture. One can imagine the existence of modern middle classes only as long as the capitalist marketplace is expanding.
Why do modern people assume that there will be perpetual economic growth? Because, David W. Noble tells us in this provocative study of cultural criticism, such a utopian conviction is the necessary foundation for bourgeois culture. One can imagine the existence of modern middle classes only as long as the capitalist marketplace is expanding.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
David W. Noble, professor emeritus at University of Minnesota, is the author of many influential books including The Progressive Mind, 1890–1917, The End of American History, and Death of a Nation: American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism. David R. Roediger is professor of history and African American studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign.
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Contents ForewordDavid R. Roediger Acknowledgments 1. Two-World Metaphors, from Plato to Alan Greenspan 2. Historians against History 3. Economists Discover a New New World 4. Literary Critics Become Cultural Critics 5. Ecologists on Why History Will Never End 6. When Prophecy Fails Notes Index
Contents ForewordDavid R. Roediger Acknowledgments 1. Two-World Metaphors, from Plato to Alan Greenspan 2. Historians against History 3. Economists Discover a New New World 4. Literary Critics Become Cultural Critics 5. Ecologists on Why History Will Never End 6. When Prophecy Fails Notes Index
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