Progress and modernity: the problem with autonomy

Wagner, Peter

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Progress and modernity: the problem with autonomy

dc.contributor.author	Wagner, Peter
dc.date.accessioned	2018-03-13T09:39:41Z
dc.date.available	2018-03-13T09:39:41Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.description.abstract	The idea of modernity is inextricably tied up with the one of progress. One main reason for this connection is that the late eighteenth century, often considered to be the onset of modernity, was in Europe also seen as the dawn of a new society evolving according to a different logic than any preceding one, namely with an open horizon of future possibilities. This article explores the meaning of this opening by first looking at the elaboration of what is called here a “strong concept of progress”, based on the connection between autonomy and reason, and by subsequently confronting this concept with the historical experiences with progress. This confrontation helps to understand the transformations in the expectations of progress from the middle of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century. As a result a more nuanced view of the relation between progress and modernity will be proposed that can be fruitful for assessing our current expectations of progress in the context of contemporary modernity.	es
dc.format	application/pdf	es
dc.format.extent	24	es
dc.identifier.citation	Sociología Histórica, nº7, (2017)	es
dc.identifier.issn	2255-3851
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/57168
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad de Murcia	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.subject	Autonomy	es
dc.subject	Democracy	es
dc.subject	Domination	es
dc.subject.other	CDU::3 - Ciencias sociales	es
dc.title	Progress and modernity: the problem with autonomy	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication	es