The Challenge of Progress: Theory Between Critique and Ideology (Current Perspectives in Social Theory; Volume 36) by Edited by Harry F. Dahms - 2020

Emerald Publishing, 2020. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Philosophy, sociology, political science, and behavioral sciences specialists from the US present 11 essays that examine challenges to various dimensions of progress and the crisis in the internal functioning and widespread support of democratic values and institutions in relation to capitalism and the commitment to maintaining social, political, economic, cultural, organizational, and technological achievements. Essays in the first section address aspects of Amy Allen's The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory, including a response by Allen. Essays in the second section analyze challenges to progress, with discussion of the role of the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche in the resurgence of right-wing thought and activism, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, and sociology as a profession, while those in the third section examine the dynamics of progress in terms of desertification processes in and around Las Vegas, Nevada; the changing dynamics of traditional marriage proposals in the US; and the influence of Francis Bacon on Emile Durkheim. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. (2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)