Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian Age

Russell Jacoby

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Paper, 240 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12895-7
$24.95 / £16.95

March, 2005
Cloth, 240 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12894-0
$75.00 / £52.00

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. An Anarchic Breeze

2. On Anti-Utopianism: More or Less

3. To Shake the World off Its Hinges

4. A Longing That Cannot Be Uttered

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• Political Philosophy
• Political Theory

About the Author

Russell Jacoby is a professor of history and education at UCLA and the author of several books of history, politics, and cultural criticism, including The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in the Age of Apathy, Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America, and The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe. He also reviews books for The Nation, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and other publications.

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