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Making Wonderful (häftad, eng)

University of Alberta Press

Making Wonderful (häftad, eng)

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In Making Wonderful, Martin M. Tweedale tells how an ideology in the West energized an economic expansion that has led to ecological disaster. He takes us back to the rise of cities and autocratic rulers, analyzing how respect for custom and tradition gave way to the dominance of top-down rational planning and organization.

Then in response came a highly attractive myth of an eventual future rid of all of humankind''s ills, one in which life would be “made wonderful.” Originating in Zoroastrianism and, through Jewish apocalyptic works, flowing into early Christianity, this myth produced utopian beliefs that set the West apart from the other civilizations.

Tweedale shows how these beliefs became popular among Western elites in the early modern period and eventually resulted in the distinctly Western doctrine of progress. This doctrine, an almost religious faith in the capacity of science and technology to improve human life, released economic expansion from traditional constraints and has led to our current environmental emergency.

Exploring sources from philosophy, religion, and the history of ideas, Making Wonderful is for all readers who are intellectually curious about the roots of our eco-catastrophe.


Format Häftad Omfång 464 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag University of Alberta Press Utgivningsdatum 2023-03-08 ISBN 9781772126242

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University of Alberta Press

Making Wonderful (häftad, eng)

589 kr

589 kr

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