Utopia & Revolution: On the Origins of a MetaphorThe 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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... felicitous institutions which were its due . For Karl Marx , living rather in apocalyp- * Andrew Marvell , " An Horation Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland " ( 1650 ) . tic hope , the longed - for means was the 30 IDEALS.
... Cromwell and Robespierre to Marx and Lenin , from Paris and London ( or Trier and Berlin , if you will ) to Moscow and beyond . It is not an academic exercise , for I feel myself part of that " whole generation " 25 for whom Albert ...
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