Posterity Lost
Progress, Ideology, and the Decline of the American Family
- Textbook
Posterity Lost
Progress, Ideology, and the Decline of the American Family
- Textbook
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Has the American spirit of optimism disappeared? This original and provocative book provides a penetrating analysis of two developments which are revolutionizing late 20th century America. The decline of the American family and a waning faith in the Idea of Progress are in sharp contrast to our historic past. Richard T. Gill links these two significant developments by examining our changing attitudes to the future. Americans today increasingly focus on the short term instead of the long view, and the losers in this myopic process are both the family, which is responsible for rearing the future generation, and the Idea of Progress, which once guaranteed that future generations would enjoy increasingly happy and productive lives. Posterity Lost provides a thought-provoking examination of these disturbing developments and offers some hopeful suggestions for their reversal.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Introduction
Part 4 Part I. The Problem: Family Breakdown and Its Relation to Progress
Chapter 5 In Disarray: The American Family Approaching Year 2000
Chapter 6 The Future at Risk: The Consequences of Family Breakdown
Chapter 7 Why Conventional Explanations Are Incomplete
Chapter 8 The Crucial Role of the Ideology of Progress
Part 9 Part II. The Paradox: Rise and Fall of the Idea of Progress
Chapter 10 How the Process Gave Rise to the Idea
Chapter 11 The First Great Predicament of Progress
Chapter 12 A "Horrible Capacity for Mass Annihilation"
Chapter 13 Limits-to-Growth Predicaments
Chapter 14 The Fundamental Predicament of Progress
Chapter 15 Decline and Fall of the Idea of Progress
Part 16 Part III. The Battle: The War Over Family Values
Chapter 17 Family Values: Evolution or Revolution? A Major Battleground: Self vs. Posterity
Chapter 18 Equality, Family Advantages, and Moral Relativism
Chapter 19 Reclaiming the Family: Principles and Programs
Chapter 20 We Can Act, But Will We?
Product details
| Published | 01 Jan 2000 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 352 |
| ISBN | 9780585114286 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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