Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968 (Revised) (Revised)-Fast Shipping

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Title: Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968 (Revised) (Revised)

Author: Paul Berman

ISBN: 9780393316759

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1997

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: Revised ed.

Number of Pages: 352

Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

Publisher : 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).