Progress unchained: ideas of evolution, human history and the future
"Progress Unchained reinterprets the history of the idea of progress using parallels between evolutionary biology and changing views of human history. Early concepts of progress in both areas saw it as the ascent of a linear scale of development toward a final goal. The 'chain of being...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Progress Unchained reinterprets the history of the idea of progress using parallels between evolutionary biology and changing views of human history. Early concepts of progress in both areas saw it as the ascent of a linear scale of development toward a final goal. The 'chain of being' defined a hierarchy of living things with humans at the head, while social thinkers interpreted history as a development toward a final paradise or utopia. Darwinism reconfigured biological progress as a 'tree of life' with multiple lines of advance not necessarily leading to humans, each driven by the rare innovations that generate entirely new functions. Popular writers such as H. G. Wells used a similar model to depict human progress, with competing technological innovations producing ever-more rapid changes in society. Bowler shows that as the idea of progress has become open-ended and unpredictable, a variety of alternative futures have been imagined"-- |
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| adam_text | Contents List of Figures Preface 1 Introduction: Ladders and Trees Part I page vi vii 1 The Ladder of Progress and the End of History 2 From the Chain of Being to the Ladder of Creation 27 3 The Hierarchy of Humanity 69 4 Progress to Paradise: Christianity, Idealism and History 89 5 Ascent to Utopia: The Quest for a Perfect Society 119 6 End of an Era? 149 Part II Towards a World of Unlimited Possibilities 7 Darwinian Visions 173 8 The Uniqueness of Humans 212 9 Branching Out: The Evolution of Civilizations 222 10 Towards an Uncertain Future 248 11 Epilogue: Where Did It All Go Wrong? 267 Bibliography Index 273 302 v
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Contents List of Figures Preface 1 Introduction: Ladders and Trees Part I page vi vii 1 The Ladder of Progress and the End of History 2 From the Chain of Being to the Ladder of Creation 27 3 The Hierarchy of Humanity 69 4 Progress to Paradise: Christianity, Idealism and History 89 5 Ascent to Utopia: The Quest for a Perfect Society 119 6 End of an Era? 149 Part II Towards a World of Unlimited Possibilities 7 Darwinian Visions 173 8 The Uniqueness of Humans 212 9 Branching Out: The Evolution of Civilizations 222 10 Towards an Uncertain Future 248 11 Epilogue: Where Did It All Go Wrong? 267 Bibliography Index 273 302 v |
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