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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... imagination . What history is remembered has a limited quality as a mere abstracted accuracy or a formal antiquarianism , falling short of both the vitality of Croce's " contemporary history " and the relevance of a " usable past ...
... imagination that a utopian vision of a future man , at last erect and godlike , should be reduced to a hunched - over peering at Russian floor- boards , African verandas , and the sandy fields of Mark Brandenburg . The ants are always ...
... imagination . Where life and literature have been usually so various , could there never have been a less inflexible dream of freedom and man's destiny ? Walter Bagehot once suggested " how hateful variation " could be , with the very ...
... imaginative cycles are , I think , clear . Dante con- sidered Joachim his intellectual mentor ( although they had one funda- mental political difference : whether the Emperor had a messianic mis- sion or was part of the designs of the ...
... imaginative escape for oppressed spirits . These were matters which 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 ...
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