The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics (Christopher Lasch)

Christopher Lasch's famous exposition of the false claims of progress, and of what the alternatives are to an unthinking slavish devotion to "progress." A book that was before its time in 1991, but the moment of which may have come.

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"It is common knowledge that the vast majority of sociology is completely worthless, or worse than worthless, and that “social science” is an oxymoron. Still, the study of the societies of man can be a worthwhile discipline, as a branch of humanities, not the sciences. To be sure, the number of modern authors writing in this discipline who are valuable can be counted on one hand, the hand of a man who earlier had an accident involving a table saw. But Christopher Lasch, who died thirty years ago, should be counted in that small group, and this work, his attack on the American gospel of eternal progress, is even more relevant today than when it was written in 1991. . . ."