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ISBN13: 9780393316759 |
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Publisher Comments:
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 antiCommunist 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).
-- "Every page sparkles with stylish, perceptive, imaginative insights". — Philadelphia Inquirer
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780393316759
- Subtitle:
- The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Subject:
- History
- Subject:
- United States - 20th Century/60s
- Subject:
- History & Theory
- Subject:
- United states
- Subject:
- 20th century
- Subject:
- Anthropology - Cultural
- Subject:
- Social history
- Subject:
- Liberalism
- Subject:
- Gay liberation movement
- Subject:
- Czechoslovakia
- Subject:
- Radicalism
- Subject:
- History & Theory - General
- Edition Number:
- 1st ed.
- Series Volume:
- 98-134
- Publication Date:
- October 1997
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 351
- Dimensions:
- 7.36x4.62x.90 in. .55 lbs.










