Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Early Modern, History, Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

Authors: John Bagnell Bury In Year : 1920

Book Language: English

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Preface
Introduction, Part 1
Introduction, Part 2
Chapter 1: Some Interpretations of Universal History: Bodin and Le Roy
Chapter 2: Utility the End of Knowledge: Bacon
Chapter 3: Cartesianism
Chapter 4: The Doctrine of Degeneration: The Ancients and Moderns
Chapter 5: The Progress of Knowledge: Fontenelle, Part 1
Chapter 5: The Progress of Knowledge: Fontenelle, Part 2
Chapter 6: The General Progress of Man: Abbé de Saint-Pierre
Chapter 7: New Conceptions of History: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Turgot
Chapter 8: The Encyclopaedists and Economists
Chapter 9: Was Civilization a Mistake? Rousseau, Chastellux
Chapter 10: The Year 2440
Chapter 11: The French Revolution: Condorcet
Chapter 12: The Theory of Progress in England
Chapter 13: German Speculations on Progress
Chapter 14: Currents of Thought in France after the Revolution
Chapter 15: The Search for a Law of Progress: I. Saint-Simon
Chapter 16: The Search for a Law of Progress: II. Comte
Chapter 17: "Progress" in the French Revolutionary Movement (1830-1851)
Chapter 18: Material Progress: The Exhibition of 1851
Chapter 19: Progress in the Light of Evolution; and Epilogue

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