Visions of Utopia

Name: Visions of Utopia
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ISBN: 9780195171617

ISBN-10: 0195171616

ISBN-13: 9780195171617

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Authors: Edward Rothstein, Herbert Muschamp, Martin E. Marty

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From the sex-free paradise of the Shakers to the worker's paradise of Marx, utopian ideas seem to have two things in common--they all are wonderfully plausible at the start and they all end up as disasters. In Visions of Utopia, three leading cultural critics--Edward Rothstein, Martin Marty, and Herbert Muschamp--look at the history of utopian thinking, exploring why they fail and why they are still worth pursuing. Edward Rothstein, New York Times cultural critic, contends that every utopia is really a dystopia--a disaster in the making--one that overlooks the nature of humanity and the impossibilities of paradise. He traces the ideal in politics and technology and suggests that only in…

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List price: $21.95
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/25/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.308
Language: English



Visions of Utopia: Introduction


Utopia and Its Discontents


Service Not Included


"but Even So, Look at That": an Ironic Perspective on Utopias


Index