Visions of Utopia

by Edward Rothstein, Herbert Muschamp, Martin E. Marty, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195144619
• ISBN13: 9780195144611
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.7"