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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... least , compelling reasons . The first was that it is , in fact , the concept of " posterity " that links together the two main subjects indicated by the book's subtitle and that are at the heart of our analysis : the decline of the ...
... least , compelling reasons . The first was that it is , in fact , the concept of " posterity " that links together the two main subjects indicated by the book's subtitle and that are at the heart of our analysis : the decline of the ...
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... are very few writers I have read over the past many years and even decades who have not influenced my thinking on this subject at least indirectly . But there 1 are also specific persons who have been of signal help. xvi Preface.
... are very few writers I have read over the past many years and even decades who have not influenced my thinking on this subject at least indirectly . But there 1 are also specific persons who have been of signal help. xvi Preface.
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... least , the significant day - to - day earthly interventions ) of God . Now we face an increasing agnosticism about that very terrestial future which was , for some at least , a kind of God - substitute in a secular world . Could this ...
... least , the significant day - to - day earthly interventions ) of God . Now we face an increasing agnosticism about that very terrestial future which was , for some at least , a kind of God - substitute in a secular world . Could this ...
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... least on future earths that the descendants of the human race may come to occupy . It has , that is to say , a this - worldly , rather than other - worldly , focus , and this focus is very much future- oriented in the sense that the ...
... least on future earths that the descendants of the human race may come to occupy . It has , that is to say , a this - worldly , rather than other - worldly , focus , and this focus is very much future- oriented in the sense that the ...
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... least ameliorating the current trend toward family breakdown . Interestingly , there is in the preceding analysis one general reason to be hopeful . Since the vast expansion of individual choice accruing from the process of progress is ...
... least ameliorating the current trend toward family breakdown . Interestingly , there is in the preceding analysis one general reason to be hopeful . Since the vast expansion of individual choice accruing from the process of progress is ...
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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