Sentence examples for myths of progress from inspiring English sources

Currin is important philosophically for calling the bluff of postmodern theorists who reject myths of progress in art while maintaining avant-gardist postures that lean on those myths.

The book ends with a manifesto: The Eight Principles of Uncivilisation, designed to undermine the myths of progress and human centrality.

In Niemeyer's "utopia", man was supposedly to achieve harmony with nature through the liberation of space and the use of new technology – a position that expressed almost unconsciously Brazilian national myths of progress and identity.

So does a lot of once radical twentieth-century art these days, as myths of progress in culture complete their long collapse and mystiques of innovation gravitate from individual genius to corporate branding.

The myth of progress has no purchase on his philosophy.

As expressions of The New, these products have inherited the myth of progress, modernity's defining legend.

No wonder Catalanists adopted Wagner as a guide to combining myths of a legendary past with the overarching myth of progress and innovation.

The myth of progress is probably deluded and certainly dangerous, but Gray himself admits the necessity of myth – of "supreme fictions", in his admired Wallace Stevens's celebrated formulation.

Instead, the dominant interpretation of the future resembled the Whig narrative, or, more colloquially, the "myth of progress": Things always get better.

There is also a myth of progress, associated with Prometheus, god of craftsmen, but the progress is limited, for the 19th-century concept of eternal advancement is absent from Greek thought.

To me though at first it may seem paradoxical a historian's rejection of the myth of progress actually amounts to honoring the struggles (and real victories!) of activists of earlier generations.