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Leo Max e Bruce Mazlish - Progresso: Realidade ou Ilusão? O progresso, crença secular e principio fundamental da moderna sociedade ocidental, está desde há pouco tempo debaixo de fogo cruzado devido ao facto de, e ao fim de três séculos, os avanços da ciência e da tecnologia terem trazido,........ Progress, perhaps the fundamental secular belief of modern Western society, has come under heavy fire recently because, after three centuries, advances in science and technology seem increasingly to bring problems in their wake: alienation, environmental degradation, the threat of nuclear destruction. The idea of progress is brought into question by postmodern critique, attacking the notion of science as truth. Yet no other meaningful organization of humankind's sense of time looms on the horizon. This volume seeks to reassess the meaning and prospects of the idea of progress. Looking toward the millennium, the volume seeks to evaluate the idea's worth both in theory--