The two deaths of the idea of progress (1800-1968)

• Autor: Ribes, Alberto Javier
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2022
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/24191
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/debatesensociologia/article/view/24191
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Social theory; Solid modernity; Progress; Future; Time; Teoría social; Progreso; Modernidad pesada; Futuro; Tiempo

This article deals with the two deaths of the idea of progress, its ups and downs and developments and the consequences that this process had within solid modernity (1800-1968). The first death of the idea of progress occurred, then, in its own formulation; its program was converted into an extension and deepening of the present. The closure began at the end of the sixties, with a paradoxical turn towards the very abyss of the absolute present and daily life and has culminated in our days. Here is the second death of the idea of progress; murdered, this time, by abandonment.