Tradition's champion: historian Christopher Lasch has no truck with the notion of progress. (includes related article on philosophers through history who have been proponents and critics of the idea of progress)

U.S. News & World Report | February 18, 1991| | Copyright

Christopher Lasch is a historian with a knack for capturing the mood swings of American society. He anticipated the zeitgeist of an earlier era in his book "The Culture of Narcissism," which appeared just as the me decade of the 70s was evolving into the greedy 80s. Now, as the money-fixated '80s give way to what has the makings of an angst-ridden decade, Lasch may again have anticipated the tenor of the times. In "The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics" (W. W. Norton, $25), the University of Rochester scholar offers an uncomfortable message for a nation ...

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