Utopia & Revolution: On the Origins of a MetaphorTransaction Publishers - 726 sidor The most comprehensive study of ideology and utopia since Karl Mannheim's work of the 1930s, Utopia and Revolution can be understood as turning classical political theory on its head or, perhaps, inside out. Instead of the usual summary of how English radical theologies contributed to the revolutionary process, Lasky shows how such political theology of the mid-seventeenth century became the backbone of the natural history of revolutionary disasters. In a remarkable feat of scholarship in intellectual history, Lasky charts the course of this historic entanglement over some five turbulent centuries of Western history. In so doing, he traces the ideological extension of the human personality through the writings of political theorists, philosophers, poets, and historians. |
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... Milton to Dante and Camus . Such words can only be written by those who have passed through these " stages " of history as a personal odyssey . They belong to Arthur Koestler , Albert Camus , and of course , to Melvin Lasky . Like the ...
... Milton , Bismarck , Nkrumah — Lapses of the Human Imagina- tion — Standards of the Anthill : Dostoevsky , Maeterlinck , Alexander Pope " Natural Civics " : The Formicary as an Ideal Republic 2. The Distorting Mirror Toynbee and the ...
... Milton , Paine , Robespierre — Utopian and Anti - utopian Revolutionaries — The Double - Tongued Tradition — Philo and the Interpretation of Dreams 1. Green Stick and Ant Brotherhood There is somewhere in Tolstoy — or so I was led to ...
... Milton , whose gaze was seldom so earthbound , hurled the biblical injunction— " Go to the Ant , thou sluggard ( saith Solomon ) " — at those faithless backsliders who , with the breakup of the Cromwellian protectorate , were slipping ...
... Milton disliked , had , in a powerful page of his Leviathan ( 1651 ) , relentlessly demonstrated the superficiality and irrelevance of the analogy between the sociability of ants and the political complexity of men who were at least ...
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