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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... taken , I 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 ...
... taken as one of the great lazy lapses of the human 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 ...
... toward which we are advancing marks a step in this direction . " 8 Apparently , for the ants , it was a road already taken . Nothing less than a tempting variant of collectivist communism— " surely this The Utopian Longing.
... taken the trouble to search More's text , he finds it " surprising , " quite different from Hellenic predecessors and modern Western succes- sors : there is little static social rigidity , almost no caste and specializa- tion . If this ...
... taken upon you , play that as well as you can and make the best of it .... So the case standeth in a common- wealth , and so it is in the consultations of kings and princes . If evil opinions and naughty persuasions cannot be utterly ...
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