The Crisis of Progress: Science, Society, and Social Values by John C. Caiazza - 2016

Transaction Publishers, 2016. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Caiazza examines the concept of progress, its separate varieties, the current rejection of it, and how it may be reconsidered on both philosophical and scientific bases. He covers history and the impact of the idea of progress; Whig history and the progressive society; Enlightenment progress and the cosmopolitan society; progress by reduction and the totalitarian temptation; historicism, relativism, and the open society; the current state of technology and culture; philosophy, progress, and cosmology; cosmology and human existence; and crisis, time, and the choice. (2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)