Visions of utopia
By: Edward Rothstein, Herbert Muschamp, Martin E. Marty
Contributors: Muschamp, Herbert; Marty, Martin E., 1928-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 93
Subjects: Utopias
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index