Debating the end of history : the marketplace, utopia, and the fragmentation of intellectual life /
Why do modern people assume that there will be perpetual economic growth? Because, David W. Noble tells us in this provocative study of cultural criticism, such a utopian conviction is the necessary foundation for bourgeois culture. One can imagine the existence of modern middle classes only as long...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2012.
|
| Series: | Critical American studies series.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
| Summary: | Why do modern people assume that there will be perpetual economic growth? Because, David W. Noble tells us in this provocative study of cultural criticism, such a utopian conviction is the necessary foundation for bourgeois culture. One can imagine the existence of modern middle classes only as long as the capitalist marketplace is expanding. For Noble, the related-and relevant-question is, how can the middle classes believe that a finite earth is an environment in which infinite growth is possible? The answer, which Noble so painstakingly charts, is nothing less than a genealogy of th. |
|---|---|
| Item Description: | Books at JSTOR Evidence Based Acquisitions Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 204 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 081668197X 1452948666 9780816681976 9781452948669 |
