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04551aam a2200601 i 4500 001 68BBDD66658D11E99B4892F996128E48 003 SILO 005 20190423010125 008 170605s2018 pau b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017026852 020 $a 0812249801 020 $a 9780812249804 035 $a (OCoLC)980495582 040 $a PU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c PAU $d DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d ERASA $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCA $d OBE $d GSU $d ORZ $d VLR $d OCLCA $d UKMGB $d VT2 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a JC201 $b .S53 2018 082 00 $a 320.01 $2 23 100 1 $a Slaboch, Matthew W., $e author. 245 12 $a A road to nowhere : $b the idea of progress and its critics / $c Matthew W. Slaboch. 264 1 $a Philadelphia : $b University of Pennsylvania Press, $c [2018] 300 $a 194 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- "The same, but otherwise": Arthur Schopenhauer as a critic of "progress" -- The autocrat and the anarchist: Nicholas I, Leo Tolstoy, and the problem of "progress" -- "The path to hell": Henry (and Brooks) Adams on history and politics -- Critics of the idea of progress in an age of extremes: three twentieth-century voices -- Conclusion. 520 8 $a Since the Enlightenment, the idea of progress has spanned right- and left-wing politics, secular and spiritual philosophy, and most every school of art or culture. The belief that humans are capable of making lasting improvements--intellectual, scientific, material, moral, and cultural--continues to be a commonplace of our age. However, events of the preceding century, including but not limited to two world wars, conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, the spread of communism across Eastern Europe and parts of Asia, violent nationalism in the Balkans, and genocides in Cambodia and Rwanda, have called into question this faith in the continued advancement of humankind. Matthew W. Slaboch argues that political theorists should entertain the possibility that long-term, continued progress may be more fiction than reality. He examines the work of German philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Oswald Spengler, Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and American historians Henry Adams and Christopher Lasch--rare skeptics of the idea of progress who have much to engage political theory, a field dominated by historical optimists. Looking at the figures of Schopenhauer, Tolstoy, and Adams, Slaboch considers the ways in which they defined progress and their reasons for doubting that their cultures, or the world, were progressing. He compares Germany, Russia, and the United States to illustrate how these nineteenth-century critics of the idea of progress contributed to or helped forestall the emergence of forms of government that came to be associated with each country. 600 10 $a Schopenhauer, Arthur, $d 1788-1860 $x Political and social views. 600 10 $a Tolstoy, Leo, $c graf, $d 1828-1910 $x Political and social views. 600 10 $a Adams, Henry, $d 1838-1918. 600 10 $a Spengler, Oswald, $d 1880-1936. 600 10 $a Solzhenitï¸ s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, $d 1918-2008 $x Political and social views. 600 10 $a Lasch, Christopher. 600 17 $a Adams, Henry, $d 1838-1918. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00049713 600 17 $a Lasch, Christopher. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00053150 600 17 $a Schopenhauer, Arthur, $d 1788-1860. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00051863 600 17 $a Solzhenitï¸ s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, $d 1918-2008. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01716925 600 17 $a Spengler, Oswald, $d 1880-1936. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00006898 600 17 $a Tolstoy, Leo, $c graf, $d 1828-1910. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00037938 650 0 $a Political science $x History $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Political science $x History $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Civilization, Modern $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Progress. 650 0 $a Regression (Civilization) 650 7 $a Civilization, Modern $x Philosophy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00863096 650 7 $a Political and social views. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01353986 650 7 $a Political science $x Philosophy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069819 650 7 $a Progress. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01078723 650 7 $a Regression (Civilization) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01093263 648 7 $a 1800-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 941 $a 2 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214040832.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20190423014817.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=68BBDD66658D11E99B4892F996128E48 994 $a Z0 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search