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Visions of Utopia
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Visions of Utopia Hardcover - 2003

by Rothstein, Edward, Muschamp, Herbert, Marty, Martin

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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. Three leading cultural critics look at the history of utopian thinking, exploring why they fail and why they are still worth pursuing.

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  • Title Visions of Utopia
  • Author Rothstein, Edward, Muschamp, Herbert, Marty, Martin
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 112
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Incorporated, New York
  • Date 2003-02-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 7774618-6
  • ISBN 9780195144611 / 0195144619
  • Weight 0.63 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.72 x 5.92 x 0.59 in (22.15 x 15.04 x 1.50 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Modern
  • Library of Congress subjects Utopias
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002010396
  • Dewey Decimal Code 335.02

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AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, IN THE END OF DAYS, THAT RIVERS OF MILK AND nectar shall flow, that the wolf shall dwell with the lamb and spears shall be beaten into pruning hooks, that philosophers shall be kings, that there will be no hypocrisy, dissembling, deceit, flattery, strife, or discord.

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Citations

  • New York Times, 03/02/2003, Page 24

About the author

Edward Rothstein is Cultural Critic at Large for The New York Times. He has been Chief Music Critic of the Times, music critic for The New Republic, and has written on a wide variety of subjects for Commentary, The New York Review of Books and other publications. He is the author of Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics.

Martin Marty is Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. The most respected religious historian in America, he has written over fifty books, was a senior editor of The Christian Century, and has won many awards, including the National Book Award and the National Humanities Medal.

Herbert Muschamp is Architecture Critic for The New York Times. He is the author of Man About Town: Frank Lloyd Wright in New York City.

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