What the Idea of Progress Really Means 47
Providence and Fortune, Grace and Virtue 49
Adam Smith's Rehabilitation of Desire 52
Smith's Misgivings about "General Security and Happiness" 55
Desire Domesticated 58
Henry George on Progress and Poverty 63
Inconspicuous Consumption, the "Superlative Machine" 67
The Keynesian Critique of Thrift 72
Optimism or Hope? 78
3.
NOSTALGIA: THE ABDICATION OF MEMORY
Memory or Nostalgia? 82
The Pastoral Sensibility Historicized and Popularized 84
Images of Childhood: From Gratitude to Pathos 87
The American West, Childhood of the Nation 92
From Solitary Hunter to He-man 97
The Village Idyll: The View from "Pittsburgh" 100
Nostalgia Named as Such: The Twenties 105
History as a Progression of Cultural Styles 110
Nostalgia Politicized 112
The Frozen Past 117
4.
THE SOCIOLOGICAL TRADITION AND THE IDEA OF
COMMUNITY
Cosmopolitanism and Enlightenment 120
The Enlightenment's Critique of Particularism 124
The Reaction against Enlightenment:
Burke 's Defense of Prejudice 		127
Action, Behavior, and the Discovery of "Society" 133
Culture against Civilization 135
Gemeinsschaftschmerz 139
The Moral Ambivalence of the Sociological Tradition 143
Marxism, the Party of the Future 148
The Structure of Historical Necessity 153
"Modernization" as an Answer to Marxism 158
The Last Refuge of Modernization Theory 162

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