Progress-once the defining promise of modern civilization-now stands on uncertain ground. In an age marked by climate catastrophe, democratic fragility, technological upheaval, and existential doubt, the old narratives no longer hold. This sweeping, provocative book traces the rise, crisis, and possible renewal of the idea of progress, offering readers a panoramic journey from the Enlightenment to the Anthropocene, from industrial revolutions to digital empires, from human rights movements to transhumanist dreams.
Drawing on philosophy, history, political theory, environmental science, and cutting-edge debates in biotechnology and AI, the book reveals how the modern faith in improvement has been repeatedly challenged-and yet continues to shape our deepest hopes and fears. Readers encounter the thinkers who built the architecture of progress, the critics who exposed its blind spots, and the movements today struggling to redefine what improvement means in a fractured world.
Across twenty-one chapters, the book explores:
Rather than offering easy optimism or fatalistic despair, the book argues for a new imagination of progress-one grounded in humility, plurality, ecological responsibility, and collective agency. It invites readers to rethink what it means to move forward when the future is no longer guaranteed, and when the very definition of "the human" is up for debate.
Ambitious in scope yet deeply attuned to the anxieties of our moment, this is a book for readers who sense that the old stories are breaking down and are searching for new ways to understand where we have been-and where we might still go.
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