1st Edition
Utopia and Revolution On the Origins of a Metaphor
Edited By Melvin J. Lasky
Copyright 2004
748 Pages
by
Routledge
748 Pages
by
Routledge
726 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1: Ideals; 1: The Utopian Longing; 2: The Revolutionary Commitment; 3: The Heretic’s True Cause; 2: Images and Ideas; 4: Martyrs of 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; 3: Ideologies; 11: To Armageddon and Back; 12: The Politics of Paradise; 13: The Prometheans; 14: The English Ideology: I; 15: The English Ideology: II; 16: The Sweet Dream
Biography
Melvin Lasky
