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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... liberal . Liberty could live in the interstices of a deeply imagined social order , in its aesthetic complexity , its verbal openness . But in the desperate soul of religious impatience , or the im- passioned heart of political demand ...
... liberalism , and middle - class revolution , " that his Utopia is " monstrous , " that " the task of the proletariat is to strike terror into the world for the healing of the world , that man may finally achieve salvation and ...
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