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: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2012.
|
| Series: | Critical American studies series.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Two-world metaphors, from Plato to Alan Greenspan
- Historians against history
- Economists discover a new New World
- Literary critics become cultural critics
- Ecologists on why history will never end
- When prophecy fails.
