02799nam 2200637Ia 450 991082573110332120230801230433.01-4529-4866-60-8166-8197-X(CKB)2670000000340296(EBL)1161871(SSID)ssj0000855985(PQKBManifestationID)12431131(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000855985(PQKBWorkID)10807603(PQKB)10415082(StDuBDS)EDZ0001177306(MiAaPQ)EBC1161871(OCoLC)834136770(MdBmJHUP)muse30020(Au-PeEL)EBL1161871(CaPaEBR)ebr10681169(CaONFJC)MIL526149(EXLCZ)99267000000034029620120522d2012 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDebating the end of history[electronic resource] the marketplace, utopia, and the fragmentation of intellectual life /David W. Noble ; foreword by David R. RoedigerMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20121 online resource (221 p.)Critical American studies seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8166-8058-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Two-world metaphors, from Plato to Alan Greenspan -- Historians against history -- Economists discover a new New World -- Literary critics become cultural critics -- Ecologists on why history will never end -- When prophecy fails.Why do modern people assume that there will be perpetual economic growth? Because, David W. Noble tells us in this provocative study of cultural criticism, such a utopian conviction is the necessary foundation for bourgeois culture. One can imagine the existence of modern middle classes only as long as the capitalist marketplace is expanding. For Noble, the related-and relevant-question is, how can the middle classes believe that a finite earth is an environment in which infinite growth is possible? The answer, which Noble so painstakingly charts, is nothing less than a genealogy of thCritical American studies series.EnvironmentalismGlobalizationHistoriographyEconomic aspectsUnited StatesHistoriographyEnvironmentalism.Globalization.HistoriographyEconomic aspects.973Noble David W139743MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825731103321Debating the end of history3912643UNINA