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The Challenge of Progress: Theory Between Critique and Ideology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781787145726)
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xGlobalization has accelerated the process of social, political, cultural, and especially economic transformations since the 1990s. In recent decades, this has cast doubt over the validity and reliability of many working assumptions about the nature and logic of progress in modern societies, at all levels of social structure and complexity.
In The Challenge of Progress, editor Harry F. Dahms and a series of contributors explore how this doubt has been magnified, looking at how the institutions and constellations between business, labor and government have begun to weaken. The essays included in this volume examine the foundations, nature and contradictions of progress in the modern era. Anchored by - but not exclusively focused on - a debate of Amy Allen's recent book, The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (2016), the eleven essays identify, analyse and confront the challenges of progress, looking across social class, philosophy, history and culture in their analyses.
For researchers and students across social theory, this is an unmissable volume confronting the present and future of our societies. Examining the choices of modern society, Dahms and contributors ask: what are the social costs of "progress"?
Author: Harry F. Dahms
ISBN-10: 1787145727
ISBN-13: 9781787145726
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Language: English
Published: 11/26/2019
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.70d
In The Challenge of Progress, editor Harry F. Dahms and a series of contributors explore how this doubt has been magnified, looking at how the institutions and constellations between business, labor and government have begun to weaken. The essays included in this volume examine the foundations, nature and contradictions of progress in the modern era. Anchored by - but not exclusively focused on - a debate of Amy Allen's recent book, The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (2016), the eleven essays identify, analyse and confront the challenges of progress, looking across social class, philosophy, history and culture in their analyses.
For researchers and students across social theory, this is an unmissable volume confronting the present and future of our societies. Examining the choices of modern society, Dahms and contributors ask: what are the social costs of "progress"?
Author: Harry F. Dahms
ISBN-10: 1787145727
ISBN-13: 9781787145726
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Language: English
Published: 11/26/2019
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.70d
By Harry F. Dahms
xHarry F. Dahms is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, where he is also co-director of the Center for the Study of Social Justice and co-chair of the Committee on Social Theory. In addition to being editor of Current Perspectives in Social Theory, he also is director of the International Social Theory Consortium. He is the author of The Vitality of Critical Theory (2011), has edited and co-edited numerous other books, and has published in Sociological Theory, Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Comparative Sociology, Critical Sociology and other journals.
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