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Millennialism, utopianism, and progress /
The basis of the book is the provocative thesis that the idea of progress results from the uneasy eighteenth-century union of elements of millennial and utopian thought.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
©1982.
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| Colección: | Heritage.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Millennialism
- Millennialism as a type
- The exile and Hebrew history
- The crisis of return
- Daniel: the first apocalyptic
- Daniel and non-canonical apocalyptic
- Three new figures: Messiah, Son of Man, and Satan
- Jesus as a millennial figure
- Revelation
- Responses to Jesus' delayed return
- Montanism: the new millennialism
- Joachim of Fiore and the third age
- Joachim's successors
- II. Utopianism
- Utopia as a type
- The decline of Greek justice
- Plato: divine and human order
- Christianity and utopia
- The Hermetic tradition
- More: the first utopia
- Campanella: a 'marginal' utopia
- Classic 'rational' utopias
- III. The formation of the doctrine of progress
- God become nature
- Puritan millennialism transformed
- Fair wind for France
- The first progressivists: Turgot, Mercier, and Condorcet
- Millennialism, utopianism, and progress
- IV. Progress and the third age
- Saint-Simon and the age of industry
- Fourier and the age of harmony
- Bellamy: corporate solidarity and organic change
- V. Progress and will
- The paradox of progress
- Bacon and universal dominion
- The general will
- Skinner's age beyond will
- The end of will
- VI. Towards a critique of progress
- Limit and perfection
- The alienated will
- Towards a critique.