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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... called ( in a mild slander on Thoreau ) Walden Two , there is a brief , ineffectual chal- lenge by a dissenting observer : " So far as I can see , " the utopian scientist is told , " you've blocked every path through which man was to ...
... called utopias not only with that of the social insects but also with the " arrested civilisations " of the Spartans , the Eskimos , and the nomads . He discerns in an ant heap ( and in a beehive ) the same out- standing features ...
... called a " Sun State . " And according to the historian Tarn , the " Sun State " of Iambulus was the inspiration of an attempted revolution at Pergamum , led by Aristonicus and his " Heliopolitans " ( among whom were slaves whom he had ...
... called out in his Concordia , " leave the tumults of crowds and the clamour of words ; follow the angel in spirit into the desert ; ascend with the same angel into the great and high mountain ; there you will behold high truths hidden ...
... called for a unity of theory and practice : " not only can we specu- late about them , but also we can do something about them ... " He repeats the point : " speculation is for the sake of action , because the aim in such matters is ...
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