The Age of Regression
Born in the seventeenth century, our faith in progress is now at death’s door. Sociologist Göran Therborn traces the idea’s history — and argues that it must be revived.
Illustration by Ben Jones.
Göran Therborn is one of the world’s leading sociologists, author of works such as European Modernity and Beyond, The World: A Beginner’s Guide, and The Killing Fields of Inequality. In a 2016 essay for New Left Review, Therborn argued that there was a prevailing mood of pessimism about the very idea of historical progress on […]
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