Lasch, Christopher
The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
- ISBN 13:
- 9780393307955
- author:
- Lasch, Christopher
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- W W Norton & Co Ltd
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 1992
- Pages:
- 592
- Dimensions:
- 140 mm X 211 mm
- Genre:
- History of ideas, intellectual history
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
A major work on the nature of progress, Christopher Lasch's The True and Only Heaven challenges readers to consider the Western human condition. He explores the struggle between two fundamental ideas: the idea of progress, driven by the conviction that human desire is insatiable, and the idea that condemns a boundless appetite for more and better goods, distrusts "improvements" that only feed desire. Lasch examines the opposition to the idea of progress from influential thinkers such as Rousseau, Montesquieu, Carlyle, Max Weber, and G.D.H. Cole. He argues that a turn toward moral conservatism, toward a lower-middle-class culture that values egalitarianism, workmanship, and loyalty, may offer a more desirable path. This sobering analysis will add an important new dimension to the debate on the decline of liberalism. Through his examination of these opposing ideas, Lasch seeks to understand the Western human condition and the nature of progress.
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