Utopian Thought in the Western World

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Utopian Thought in the Western World

Author	: Frank Edward MANUEL
File Size	: 52,8 Mb
Publisher	: Harvard University Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 30 June 2009
ISBN	: 9780674040564
Pages	: 907 pages

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Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank Edward MANUEL Book PDF Summary

The authors have structured five centuries of utopian invention by identifying successive constellations, groups of thinkers joined by common social and moral concerns. Within this framework they analyze individual writings, in the context of the author's life and of the socio-economic, religious, and political exigencies of his time.

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Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank Edward Manuel,Fritzie Prigohzy Manuel

Ranging over several centuries, this history of utopian thought describes the thinkers and the dreamers (and their visions of an ideal social order) who have left their mark on the thought of later generations

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Utopia by New York Public Library

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Paradoxically, contemporary horrors like ethnic cleansing are deeply rooted in humanity's highest aspirations, which have given rise to countless similar upheavals and atrocities perpetrated over millennia. Although the ideals embodied in religion and philosophy are considered to be humanity's prime "civilising" force, religions that preach love have been used to

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Utopia has long been banished from political theory, framed as an impossible—and possibly dangerous—political ideal, a flawed social blueprint, or a thought experiment without any practical import. Even the "realistic utopias" of liberal theory strike many as wishful thinking. Can politics think utopia otherwise? Can utopian thinking contribute

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