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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... feel more and more that what had been called ' bourgeois democracy ' was not a thing of the past and that the Bolshevik Revolution did not represent humanity's inevitable , progressive step forward . " Quite the contrary , freedom was ...
... feel , a form of dialogue with the past in which the essential lines have already been spoken . I can fully understand A. O. Lovejoy's exasperation at finding in his reading paraphrases where he " desiderated the actual language of ...
... feel , a profound tragic turn is in the triple error : utopia conceived as a sterile monolithic harmony ; revolution as a dogmatic commitment to total change and violent reconstruction ; principles of hope and belief transmogrified into ...
... feel compelled to look backward again to an earlier , medieval scene , beyond More to the Dantesque epoch of the Holy Roman Emperors , in order to record the emergence of a secular this - worldly drama in place of what had always been a ...
... feels , " must win over , or else crush , his utopianist competitors who do nor share his utopian aims , those who do not profess his own Utopianist religion . " More would indeed have been puzzled . If tolerance is a human virtue ...
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