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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... words and the con- cepts that underlay them ? For Lasky , the answer lay in the trek from Utopia and Revolution to the Language of Journalism . This latter - day ambitious project , of which two of three promised volumes are complete ...
... Words would in truth become Flesh.24 He was the teacher and preacher of the age , and even when , like Erasmus , he ... word ) as well as the hope of reform ; these have always been man's proposed roads to freedom . I have spoken earlier ...
... words ; follow the angel in spirit into the desert ; ascend with the same angel into the great and high mountain ; there you will behold high truths hidden from the beginning of time and from all generations .... For we , called in ...
... words were not enough to change the world , even for Christian humanists who believed in the Word , the wit and wile of the Fabian would scarcely suffice for utopians in a hurry , intolerant of the vaunted complications of this ...
... words of Philo Judaeus of Alexandria which have been the true points of depar- ture for all I have been saying : I will venture frankly to say that the statesman is beyond any doubt an interpreter of dreams ... a man accustomed to ...