After progress : finding the old way forward / Anthony O'Hear Hardback - 1999

London : Bloomsbury, 1999. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xi, 270 pages ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Introduction: Progress and Its Discontents -- 1. Images of Enlightenment. Francis Bacon: The Shattering of the Idols. Newton's World Machine. Enlightenment Optimism: Science, Reason and Society -- 2. The Counter-Enlightenment. Rousseau. Herder and the Particularity of Culture. Burke and de Maistre: Prejudice Defended -- 3. Two Hundred Years of the Progress of Reason. Reason, Equality and Human Rights: Immanuel Kant. Utilitarianism. Reason Destructive of Reason. Darwinism. Marxism. Freud. The Achilles' Heel. Constructive Rationalism. Faith in Science -- 4. The Uncertainty of Progress. Whig History. Putting the Clock Back. Rhetorical History. History and Evolution -- 5. Thinkers of Loss. Plato. Aristotle. Augustine: Original Sin and the Two Cities. Renaissances. De Tocqueville and the Mediocrities of Democracy. Nietzsche. The Pessimism of the Nineteenth Century. Spengler: The Decline of the West -- 6. The Twentieth Century. Profit and Loss. Religion. Philosophy. Art. Education and Psychology. Politics, Media and Sport. Subjects; Progress Philosophy. Progress Moral and ethical aspects. Civilization, Modern. Social change Philosophy. Conduct of life. Civilization, Modern 20th century.