Utopia and Revolution: On the Origins of a Metaphor Contributor(s): Lasky, Melvin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138540188 ISBN-13: 9781138540187 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2018 |
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BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
Dewey: 321.07 |
Physical Information: 1.56" H x 6" W x 9" (2.56 lbs) 748 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Horowitz, Irving Louis: - Irving Louis Horowitz (1929-2012) was Hannah Arendt Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Political Science at Rutgers University. He was the founder and served as chairman of the board and editorial director of Transaction Publishers. |