Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian Age

by Russell Jacoby

Book Overview

"The choice we have is not between reasonable proposals and an unreasonable utopianism. Utopian thinking does not undermine or discount real reforms. Indeed, it is almost the opposite: practical reforms depend on utopian dreaming."--Russell Jacoby, Picture Imperfect

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231128959
• ISBN13: 9780231128957
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 7.2"