The Prophets Of Doom 1st Edition Neema Parvini by Neema Parvini 9781788361149, 1788361148 instant download after payment.

A competent literature review of some post-Renaissance authors' perspectives on Universal History, adopts a foundationalist / logical positivist / "naïve-empiricist" frame to generalise up from points of convergence in the opinions of 11 men as a 'post-hoc' appeal to authority for the author's confirmation biases.
Intro has many factual errors. The Carlyle chapter is largely reproduced from a biographical essay for Chronicles. Quality of writing tails off noticeably towards the end. Conclusion is incoherent - "these guys thought some things, therefore UNIVERSAL LAW OF CIVILISATION".
Should appeal to Zoomers & anyone not yet 'Enlightenment-pilled'.
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"Linear and progressive views of history have dominated the popular imagination for the past seventy years in a worldview wedded to the inexorable rise of globalisation and GDP-growth at any cost. 

However, the end of the Cold War failed to produce the end of history as hoped, a fact brought home to many by Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Material wealth and 'Progress’ in the name of ‘social justice’ have not made people happier or more united but quite the opposite. Anxiety, depression, fearfulness, sadness, loneliness and anger have all massively increased since 1970 with the male suicide rate at an all-time high. Western society seems to be divided against itself across every line conceivable: left versus right, women versus men, ‘non-whites’ versus ‘whites’, globalists versus populists, ‘the elites’ versus ‘the people’, people who think that men can be women and vice versa versus those who insist that they cannot, and so on. Seventy-three percent of Americans believe their country is on ‘the wrong track’, with similar views reflected in Britain and across Europe. 

The Prophets of Doom explores eleven thinkers who not only dared to contradict the dominant linear and progressive view of history, but also predicted many of the political and social maladies through which we are living."