Posterity Lost: Progress, Ideology, and the Decline of the American FamilyRowman & Littlefield, 1997 - 353 páginas In this pathbreaking study that has earned the praise of scholars, family advocates, and policymakers, Richard T. Gill does more than illuminate the multiple causes and devastating effects of America's diminishing spirit of optimism. In order to reverse this disturbing trend, Gill urges Americans to reject short-term solutions, expand their time horizons, and, above all, give increasing care and attention to their children. |
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... clearly of the traditional American family in particular , has always been to secure this succession of descendants and generations . In the past , whether rightly or wrongly , we stayed together " for the sake of the children . " We ...
... clearly of the traditional American family in particular , has always been to secure this succession of descendants and generations . In the past , whether rightly or wrongly , we stayed together " for the sake of the children . " We ...
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... clearly there . This , in fact , was what the Idea of Progress promised us . In his book , Reaching for Heaven on Earth , Robert H. Nelson has shown how even among apparently hardheaded , scientifically minded economists there has ...
... clearly there . This , in fact , was what the Idea of Progress promised us . In his book , Reaching for Heaven on Earth , Robert H. Nelson has shown how even among apparently hardheaded , scientifically minded economists there has ...
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... clearly places great emphasis on what happens in the future and on this earth , or if not literally on this earth , at least on future earths that the descendants of the human race may come to occupy . It has , that is to say , a this ...
... clearly places great emphasis on what happens in the future and on this earth , or if not literally on this earth , at least on future earths that the descendants of the human race may come to occupy . It has , that is to say , a this ...
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... clearly has to be avoided is confusing the empirical " process of progress " with the ( capitalized ) " Idea of Progress " with its ideological and actually moral implications . However the empirical process of progress is labeled , the ...
... clearly has to be avoided is confusing the empirical " process of progress " with the ( capitalized ) " Idea of Progress " with its ideological and actually moral implications . However the empirical process of progress is labeled , the ...
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... ( clearly impossible ) , a far more restric- tive , self - restrained , even occasionally self - sacrificial , view of life than has recently become common . There would , in short , be pain , but also potential reward . And one of those ...
... ( clearly impossible ) , a far more restric- tive , self - restrained , even occasionally self - sacrificial , view of life than has recently become common . There would , in short , be pain , but also potential reward . And one of those ...
Contenido
In Disarray The American Family Approaching Year 2000 | 13 |
The Future at Risk The Consequences of Family Breakdown | 33 |
Why Conventional Explanations Are Incomplete | 57 |
The Crucial Role of the Ideology of Progress | 83 |
How the Process Gave Rise and Fall of the Idea of Progress | 103 |
The First Great Predicament of Progress | 119 |
A Horrible Capacity for Mass Annihilation | 135 |
LimitstoGrowth Predicaments | 151 |
Family values Evolution or Revolution? | 219 |
A Major Battleground Self vs Posterity | 237 |
Equality Family Advantages and Moral Relativism | 257 |
Reclaiming the Family Principles and Programs | 275 |
We Can Act But Will We? | 297 |
Notes | 315 |
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About the Author | |
The Fundamental Predicament of Progress | 171 |
Decline and Fall of the Idea of Progress | 189 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Posterity Lost: Progress, Ideology, and the Decline of the American Family Richard Thomas Gill Vista de fragmentos - 1997 |
Posterity Lost: Progress, Ideology, and the Decline of the American Family Richard Thomas Gill Vista de fragmentos - 1997 |
Posterity Lost: Progress, Ideology, and the Decline of the American Family Richard Thomas Gill Vista de fragmentos - 1997 |
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