The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics (Christopher Lasch)
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Christopher Lasch's famous exposition of the false claims of progress, and of what the alternatives are to an unthinking slavish devotion to "progress." A book that was before its time in 1991, but the moment of which may have come.
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