Visions of Utopia

by Edward Rothstein, Herbert Muschamp, Martin Marty

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198033042
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/06/2003
Series:	New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	130 KB

About the Author

Edward Rothstein is Cultural Critic at Large for The New York Times. He has been Chief Music Critic of the Times, music critic for The New Republic, and has written on a wide variety of subjects for Commentary, The New York Review of Books and other publications. He is the author of Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics.

Martin Marty is Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. The most respected religious historian in America, he has written over fifty books, was a senior editor of The Christian Century, and has won many awards, including the National Book Award and the National Humanities Medal.

Herbert Muschamp is Architecture Critic for The New York Times. He is the author of Man About Town: Frank Lloyd Wright in New York City.