What does TIOP stand for?

The Idea of Progress (blog)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The Great Delusion by Steven Stoll 224 pages, Hill and Wang, 2008 "How does it happen that serious people continue to believe in progress, in the face of massive evidence that might have been expected to refute the idea of progress once and for all?

The Great Delusion

This tells the epic story of the American folk revival from the 1920s to the 1960s, and how nostalgia for a lost past became bound up with the idea of progress - or why America wears blue jeans.

Going back to their roots; DOCUMENTARY OF THE WEEK FOLK AMERICA ...

Chesterton refused to believe in the idea of progress and held the theology of St Thomas Aquinas in higher regard than the science of Darwin or the philosophy of Marx or Nietzsche.

The everlasting man

As examples, the authors cite Croce's assertion that every true history is contemporary history and Butterfield's abandonment of the idea of progress.

Ann Curthoys and John Docker, Is history fiction?

Perhaps I feel this way because I am originally from the shabby East Coast, where the idea of progress is a new sign at the Texaco, but I suspect I am not alone in believing that our psychic connection to whatever place we call home is diminished when its touchstones disappear -- even if those touchstones are nothing more than the local pizzeria and carwash.

MEMORIES RAZED IN `IMPROVED' L.A

But best of all, the exhibition highlights the value of a real engagement with the past, placing the idea of progress in much-needed perspective.

The art of revisiting the Swinging Sixties

Human beings are creatures of habit and at the same time desirous of novelty, and the idea of progress appeals to both sentiments while improving them.

Rational control, or, life without virtue

Evoking padded cells, decay and infestation, the piece counteracts the idea of progress often embodied in a city's ideals.

Looking inward, reaching out at biennale