The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth by John Bagnell BURY (1861 - 1927)
Genre(s): History, Social Science (Culture & Anthropology), Early Modern

Read by: Barry Ganong in English

Parts:
Part 2 https://youtu.be/_Gxp6vmGCxU

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Preface
00:05:40 - 02 - Introduction, Part 1
00:36:06 - 03 - Introduction, Part 2
01:00:02 - 04 - Chapter 1: Some Interpretations of Universal History: Bodin and Le Roy
01:18:44 - 05 - Chapter 2: Utility the End of Knowledge: Bacon
01:39:50 - 06 - Chapter 3: Cartesianism
02:00:16 - 07 - Chapter 4: The Doctrine of Degeneration: The Ancients and Moderns
02:31:18 - 08 - Chapter 5: The Progress of Knowledge: Fontenelle, Part 1
02:52:32 - 09 - Chapter 5: The Progress of Knowledge: Fontenelle, Part 2
03:15:18 - 10 - Chapter 6: The General Progress of Man: Abbé de Saint-Pierre
03:40:46 - 11 - Chapter 7: New Conceptions of History: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Turgot
04:03:41 - 12 - Chapter 8: The Encyclopaedists and Economists
04:31:20 - 13 - Chapter 9: Was Civilization a Mistake? Rousseau, Chastellux
04:54:27 - 14 - Chapter 10: The Year 2440
05:08:55 - 15 - Chapter 11: The French Revolution: Condorcet
05:31:41 - 16 - Chapter 12: The Theory of Progress in England
06:03:35 - 17 - Chapter 13: German Speculations on Progress
06:38:01 - 18 - Chapter 14: Currents of Thought in France after the Revolution

John Bagnell Bury was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University in the early twentieth century. In The Idea of Progress, he assesses the concepts of history found in the classical period and then traces the historical development of the concept of political and social progress by looking at writers from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. It is interesting to consider what the history of the past hundred years would add to such an analysis. - Summary by Barry Ganong

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