For those interested, there’s a pretty big literature discussing this overlap (although not via those specific examples). This overlap is sometimes called ‘teleological historicism’, ‘historical meta-narratives’, or ‘high modernism’ (each of these is a little different in practice, and some fit this specific case better or worse).
For those interested, there’s a pretty big literature discussing this overlap (although not via those specific examples). This overlap is sometimes called ‘teleological historicism’, ‘historical meta-narratives’, or ‘high modernism’ (each of these is a little different in practice, and some fit this specific case better or worse).
Seeing Like a State
The Open Society and Its Enemies
The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Postmodern Condition
Discipline and Punish
Dialectic of Enlightenment