The concept of progress

Author: (Eng) John Bury
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: Preface to the American Edition Introduction Progress: An Eternal Theme Introduction Chapter 1 Explaining Universal History: Bury and Lee Roy Chapter 2 Practicality: The Ultimate Purpose of Knowledge—Bacon Chapter 3 Cartesian Philosophy Chapter 4 Regression Theory: Ancient and Modern Chapter 5 The Progress of Knowledge: Fontenelle Chapter 6 Universal Progress of Humanity: Abbé de Saint-Pierre Chapter 7 The New Concept of History: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Turgot Chapter 8 Encyclopedists and the School of Economics Chapter 9 Is Civilization Wrong?: Rousseau, Chester Luke Chapter 10 2440 Chapter 11 The French Revolution: Condorcet Chapter 12 The Theory of Progress in England Chapter 13 German Thoughts on Progress Chapter 14 Post-Revolutionary French Intellectual Trends Chapter 15 Seeking the Laws of Progress (Part One): Saint-Simon Chapter 16 Seeking the Laws of Progress (Part Two): Comte Chapter 17 "Progress" During the French Revolutionary Movement (1830–1851) Chapter 18 Material Progress: The 1851 Exhibition Chapter 19 Progress in the Evolutionary Sense Postscript