Progress · A Reconstruction by Wagner, Peter -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Dedication Title page Copyright page Foreword 1: The Withering Away of Progress

Something Happened Between 1979 and 1989 A Look Back: The Invention of Progress The Experience with Progress: A Note on Method Dimensions of Progress A Look Forward: Embarking on the Work of Reconstruction Notes

2: Progress as Mechanism: The Epistemic-Economic Complex

Progress of Knowledge: Science, the Endless Frontier? Economic Growth as Progress in the Satisfaction of Needs The Transformation of the Earth: The Emerging Great Divergence of Interpretations Progress Without End Notes

3: Progress as Struggle under Conditions of Ambivalence

4: The Idea of Progress Revisited

The Enlightenment Connection: Autonomy and Progress Critiques: Autonomy Undermining Progress Rereading the European Experience of Progress: Autonomy and Domination Progress between Personal Autonomy and Collective Autonomy Notes

5: The Past Half Century

6: Possible Progress Today

The Issues at Stake The Reconstitution of Historical Temporality The Reconstitution of Meaningful Spatiality Progress Under Conditions of Autonomy: Agency and Critique Possible Progress (1): Building Democratic Agency Possible Progress (2): Overcoming New Kinds of Domination Possible Progress (3): Avoiding Hubris Reversing Recent Regress Notes

Bibliographical Note

The Approach Additional References Foreword Chapter 1 The Withering Away of Progress Chapter 2 Progress as Mechanism: The Epistemic-Economic Complex Chapter 3 Progress as Struggle under Conditions of Ambivalence Chapter 4 The Idea of Progress Revisited Chapter 5 The Past Half Century Chapter 6 Possible Progress Today

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