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Picture imperfect: Utopian thought for an anti-Utopian age

By Russell Jacoby

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
978-0-231-50297-9, 0231502974, 0-231-12894-0
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
796 kB (815433 bytes)
Pages
211\0
Time added
2019-09-25 00:09:26
Utopias;Dystopias;Utopias;Religious aspects;POLITI

Description

Amos Elon, author, The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933. Abstract: Utopianism suffers from an image problem: a recent exhibition on utopias in Paris and New York included photographs of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" and a Nazi concentration camp. This work examines the anti-utopian mindset and identifies how utopian thought came to be regarded with suspicion.  Read more... Content: Preface : an anarchic breeze -- On anti -- Utopianism : more or less -- To shake the world off its hinges -- A longing that cannot be uttered -- Epilogue.

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