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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... Reason and Passion 5. The Birth of a Metaphor : I 6. The Birth of a Metaphor : II 7. The Metaphysics of Doomsday 8. The Novelty of Revolution 9. The Great Intelligencers : I 10. The Great Intelligencers : II Part 3 Ideologies 11. To ...
... reason is reflected in expressions of truth - telling rather than any single vocabulary of reason as some pure entity unto itself . Utopia and Revolution can be understood as turning classical political theory on its head , or better ...
... reason is only a few could match Lasky's sense of the common culture from Shakespeare to 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 ...
... reason . Here the past is a spur , for men in history have been known to be such utopians , revolutionaries , and heretics , and they have succeeded — in the sense of their magnificent and timeless relevance — more than they ever had reason ...
... Reason , between man the Dionysian extremist and the reasonable , reasoning creature . His heart leads him on to utopian dreams and revolutionary aspirations ; his reflec- tiveness teaches him care , caution , and a course which must ...
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