Debating the End of History - The Marketplace, Utopia, and the Fragmentation of Intellectual Life

Klappentext Why do modern people assume that there will be perpetual economic growth? Because! David W. Noble tells us in this provocative study of cultural criticism! such a utopian conviction is the necessary foundation for bourgeois culture. One can imagine the existence of modern middle classes only as long as the capitalist marketplace is expanding. Zusammenfassung Why do modern people assume that there will be perpetual economic growth? Because! David W. Noble tells us in this provocative study of cultural criticism! such a utopian conviction is the necessary foundation for bourgeois culture. One can imagine the existence of modern middle classes only as long as the capitalist marketplace is expanding.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: David W. Noble, NOBLE DAVID W
• Verlag: University Of Minnesota Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 23.10.2012
• EAN: 9780816680580
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-8058-0
• Seiten: 224
• Serien: Critical American Studies; Critical American Studies
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft