Our Progress-Idea and the War (Classic Reprint): An Essay Concerning Recent Literature: An Essay Concerning Recent Literature (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Explore how writers shaped the idea of progress in a turbulent era. This penetrating analysis traces how nineteenth‑century notions of growth and humanity evolved into modern debates about war, nationalism, and the meaning of “progress.” Through close readings of authors across Europe and America, the work examines how love, morality, and culture interact with public life, science, and politics.

- Learn how early thinkers redefined progress from a purely rational measure to a moral and spiritual journey.
- Discover how demonaturalism and other-worldly nationalism influenced literature, culture, and public opinion.
- See how war and internationalism challenged familiar ideas of nation, humanity, and destiny.
- Understand how readers and writers wrestled with the tension between individual impulse and collective progress.

Ideal for readers of literary criticism and cultural history who want to understand the forces shaping modern thought about progress, society, and war.

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