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The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth

Gelesen von Barry Ganong

(5 Sterne; 6 Bewertungen)

John Bagnell Bury was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University in the early twentieth century. In The Idea of Progress, he assesses the concepts of history found in the classical period and then traces the historical development of the concept of political and social progress by looking at writers from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. It is interesting to consider what the history of the past hundred years would add to such an analysis. - Summary by Barry Ganong (8 hr 59 min)

Chapters

Preface

5:41

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Introduction, Part 1

30:26

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Introduction, Part 2

23:56

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Chapter 1: Some Interpretations of Universal History: Bodin and Le Roy

18:43

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Chapter 2: Utility the End of Knowledge: Bacon

21:06

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Chapter 3: Cartesianism

20:26

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Chapter 4: The Doctrine of Degeneration: The Ancients and Moderns

31:02

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Chapter 5: The Progress of Knowledge: Fontenelle, Part 1

21:14

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Chapter 5: The Progress of Knowledge: Fontenelle, Part 2

22:46

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Chapter 6: The General Progress of Man: Abbé de Saint-Pierre

25:28

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Chapter 7: New Conceptions of History: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Turgot

22:56

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Chapter 8: The Encyclopaedists and Economists

27:39

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Chapter 9: Was Civilization a Mistake? Rousseau, Chastellux

23:07

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Chapter 10: The Year 2440

14:28

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Chapter 11: The French Revolution: Condorcet

22:46

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Chapter 12: The Theory of Progress in England

31:54

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Chapter 13: German Speculations on Progress

34:26

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Chapter 14: Currents of Thought in France after the Revolution

27:48

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Chapter 15: The Search for a Law of Progress: I. Saint-Simon

18:16

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Chapter 16: The Search for a Law of Progress: II. Comte

35:40

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Chapter 17: "Progress" in the French Revolutionary Movement (1830-1851)

16:46

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Chapter 18: Material Progress: The Exhibition of 1851

15:14

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Chapter 19: Progress in the Light of Evolution; and Epilogue

27:41

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Bewertungen

(5 Sterne)

Excellent book, that all interested in “progress studies” shall consider a precursor of their field of enquiry.