Posterity Lost
by Gill, Richard T.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-02-01
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Summary
Richard Gill invites us to consider a very large proposition--that the weakening of the family in Western societies is inextricably linked to the weakening of our faith in the idea of progress...No one who reads Posterity Lost will fail to learn from it.--David Blankenhorn, author of Fatherless America
Table of Contents
| List of Figures and Tables | |
| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Problem: Family Breakdown and Its Relation to Progress | |
| In Disarray: The American Family Approaching Year 2000 | p. 13 |
| The Future at Risk: The Consequences of Family Breakdown | p. 33 |
| Why Conventional Explanations Are Incomplete | p. 57 |
| The Crucial Role of the Ideology of Progress | p. 83 |
| The Paradox: Rise and Fall of the Idea of Progress | |
| How the Process Gave Rise to the Idea | p. 103 |
| The First Great Predicament of Progress | p. 119 |
| A "Horrible Capacity for Mass Annihilation" | p. 135 |
| Limits-to-Growth Predicaments | p. 151 |
| The Fundamental Predicament of Progress | p. 171 |
| Decline and Fall of the Idea of Progress | p. 189 |
| The Battle: The War over Family Values | |
| Family Values: Evolution or Revolution? | p. 219 |
| A Major Battleground: Self vs. Posterity | p. 237 |
| Equality, Family Advantages, and Moral Relativism | p. 257 |
| Reclaiming the Family: Principles and Programs | p. 275 |
| We Can Act, But Will We? | p. 297 |
| Notes | p. 315 |
| Index | p. 345 |
| About the Author | p. 355 |
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