This is the engaging story of a moment of transformation in the human sciences, a detailed account of a remarkable group of people who met regularly from 1946 to 1953 to explore the possibility of using scientific ideas that had emerged in the war years (cybernetics, information…
En imødegåelse af amerikanernes tro på uhæmmet økonomisk vækst.
Traces the anti-progressive, populist tradition of democracy in nineteenth and early twentieth-century movements by artisans and farmers as well as in major thinkers.
This analysis of the Western human condition, couched in the question: "Can we continue to believe in progress?" seeks an answer in a history of the struggle between two ideas - one, the idea of progress, requiring increasing production forces, and the other a specific oppositio…
Traces the anti-progressive, populist tradition of democracy in nineteenth and early twentieth-century movements by artisans and farmers as well as in major thinkers.