A road to nowhere: the idea of progress and its critics 9780812249804, 0812249801

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A road to nowhere: the idea of progress and its critics
 9780812249804, 0812249801

Table of contents :
IntroductionChapter 1. "The Same, But Otherwise": Arthur Schopenhauer as a Critic of "Progress"Chapter 2. The Autocrat and the Anarchist: Nicholas I, Leo Tolstoy, and the Problem of "Progress"Chapter 3. "The Path to Hell": Henry (and Brooks) Adams on History and PoliticsChapter 4. Critics of the Idea of Progress in an Age of Extremes: Three Twentieth-Century VoicesConclusionNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

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