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.
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Only through the death of the old have new lineages achieved victory. [The worker] confronts violence with the sharp arrow of knowledge. With the weighty hammer of logic he drives a wedge into everything. Following eternal laws, he must be victorious in this fight, and thus he will liberate himself, the Prometheus of our time.
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The official statistics show that gender gaps in the division of household labor have closed significantly over time. Why are so many women still so frustrated?
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