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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... mind are directly rendered . I am pursuing here that elusive ideal : history as ex- perience . There are , I am convinced , lessons at once instructive and chastening in the reading of history ; but it may be that we fail to learn from ...
... mind ( " the citizens with- draw from bodily service to the free liberty of the mind and its culture , for herein they suppose the felicity of this life to consist " ) . They intro- duced good literature to children , and their ...
On the Origins of a Metaphor Melvin Jonah Lasky. the rude , mind - troubled , question - ridden awakening . Would ... minds on the subject of whether and how these questions were actually faced . Was More's Utopia a historic fantasy of ...
... mind was here almost on the great borderline between old nostalgia and new hope , between a golden restoration and a revolution of the new . When Columbus crossed the ocean sea to find an otro mundo , an Other World , he was convinced ...
... mind , " bewildering in its richness of changing images ; and we know of his bursting literary com- pulsiveness from Lucas , his scribe , who has recorded that " I used to write day and night in copy - books , what he dictated and ...