{"product_id":"2026200010223-secondhand-progress-and-disillusion-the-dialectics-of-modern-society","title":"Progress And Disillusion: The Dialectics Of Modern Society","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the crossroads of hope and disenchantment stands Raymond Aron's penetrating diagnosis of the modern condition — a work that refuses to let civilization's greatest promises go unexamined. Progress and Disillusion chronicles the grand ambitions of industrial society — equality, freedom, technological mastery — and systematically uncovers the contradictions that undermine them, revealing how each advance generates its own peculiar form of frustration and moral crisis. Aron argues with forensic precision that the very forces driving modernity forward simultaneously erode the foundations upon which human satisfaction depends, leaving individuals stranded in a world of abundance yet restless with longing.\n\nOne of the twentieth century's foremost political thinkers, Aron brings to this work the same cool, rigorous intelligence that defined his landmark The Opium of the Intellectuals, presenting a sociological and philosophical reckoning that is as relevant today as when it first appeared. His prose is measured yet devastating, building an argument that implicates democracy, capitalism, and technocracy alike in the production of modern alienation. For readers willing to confront the paradoxes at the heart of progress, this volume presents a challenge that has never been satisfactorily answered.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130620846299,"sku":"2026200010223-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/04b64391-e8b7-4edb-9986-7d3441ad289e.png?v=1786587651","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200010223-secondhand-progress-and-disillusion-the-dialectics-of-modern-society","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}