Visions of Utopia

Visions of Utopia
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 106
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ISBN-10 : 9780195144611
ISBN-13 : 0195144619
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Book Synopsis Visions of Utopia by : Edward Rothstein

Download or read book Visions of Utopia written by Edward Rothstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-06 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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