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The ideological passions that, along with critical acclaim, greeted the publication of Paul Berman's A Tale of Two Utopias showed how persistent are some of the battle lines drawn in the tumultuous years around 1968.
A Tale of Two Utopias recounts "in clean, clear, often funny style" (Washington Post) four episodes in the history of a generation: the worldwide student radicalism of the years around 1968; the birth of gay liberation and modern identity politics; the anti-Communist trajectory of the '68ers in the Eastern bloc; and the ideals and self-criticism of thinkers in America and in France who lived through these events and debated their meaning.
Praised for both "sheer intellectual high-spiritedness" (Houston Chronicle) and "the same sensitivity to the moral needs of the participants, and the same lucid evaluative balance, as Edmund Wilson's accounts of earlier periods" (philosopher Richard Rorty), A Tale of Two Utopias firmly establishes Berman as "one of America's leading social critics" (New Leader) and "one of our most gifted essayists" (Boston Globe).
Author: Paul Berman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 10/17/1997
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.36h x 4.62w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780393316759
ISBN10: 0393316750
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | 20th Century
- Political Science | History & Theory | General
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
A Tale of Two Utopias recounts "in clean, clear, often funny style" (Washington Post) four episodes in the history of a generation: the worldwide student radicalism of the years around 1968; the birth of gay liberation and modern identity politics; the anti-Communist trajectory of the '68ers in the Eastern bloc; and the ideals and self-criticism of thinkers in America and in France who lived through these events and debated their meaning.
Praised for both "sheer intellectual high-spiritedness" (Houston Chronicle) and "the same sensitivity to the moral needs of the participants, and the same lucid evaluative balance, as Edmund Wilson's accounts of earlier periods" (philosopher Richard Rorty), A Tale of Two Utopias firmly establishes Berman as "one of America's leading social critics" (New Leader) and "one of our most gifted essayists" (Boston Globe).
Author: Paul Berman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 10/17/1997
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.36h x 4.62w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780393316759
ISBN10: 0393316750
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | 20th Century
- Political Science | History & Theory | General
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
