Debating the end of history
Subtitle: the marketplace, utopia, and the fragmentation of intellectual life
By: David W. Noble ; foreword by David R. Roediger
Series: Critical American studies series
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780816680580; 9780816680597
Subjects: Historiography; Environmentalism; Globalization; Economic aspects
Description: "Why the global marketplace doesn't - and can't - provide the utopian world it promises.

"David W. Noble explains that modern people assume there will be perpetual economic growth because such a utopian conviction is the necessary foundation for bourgeois culture. Noble exposes the cost of the segregation of the physical sciences from the humanities and social sciences, while demonstrating the required movement of the humanities toward the ecological vision of a single, interconnected world."-- Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Two-world metaphors, from Plato to Alan Greenspan; title: Historians against history; title: Economists discover a new New World; title: Literary critics become cultural critics; title: Ecologists on why history will never end; title: When prophecy fails.