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"Peter Wagner"
Titel: Processual Progress, the Deflation of History, and the De-substantiation of Problems
Autor: Peter Wagner
Seite: 347-361
The following reflections are provoked by, and focus on, one of the key statements of synthesis in Rahel Jaeggi’s treatise on Progress and Regression, namely ‘Societies do not have goals, they solve problems.’ The phrase serves to criticize philosophies of history that work with a strong conception of progress in its first part and announces the step to elaborate a more adequate concept in the second. While agreeing with the underlying diagnosis and quest, none of the two steps nor the connection between the two is found entirely compelling. An alternative approach, hinted at in conclusion, would need to connect socio-philosophical conceptions of progress not with philosophies of history in the conventional understanding of the term, but with global history and historical sociology.