A Road To Nowhere: The Idea Of Progress And Its Critics

Matthew W. Slaboch examines the work of German philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Oswald Spengler, Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and American historians Henry Adams and Christopher Laschùrare skeptics of the idea of progress who have much to offer political theory, a field dominated by historical optimists.

• | Author: Matthew W. Slaboch
• | Publisher: University Of Pennsylvania Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 11, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 208 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Philosophy
• | ISBN-10: 0812249801
• | ISBN-13: 9780812249804