A Rational Millennium: Puritan Utopias of Seventeenth-century England and AmericaOxford University Press, 1987 - 371 sider Taking a new approach to the history of utopia, this volume combines the political study of literary form with the literary study of political rhetoric. After arguing that early modern utopists, both literary and non-literary, attempt to reshape displaced populations, Holstun concentrates on two utopian projects of the mid-17th century: the political platforms and Algonquin "praying towns" of John Eliot in Massachusetts and the republican political writing of James Harrington in Protectorate England. Moving between these projects and modern analyses of rationalization, he shows that Puritan utopia shares the modern Western longing for universal social discipline and that it envisions this discipline as the rational means to the Millennium. |
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... critical history , one that is con- stantly aware that it is insufficient simply to confront barbarism with enlightenment ( since enlightenment is already a kind of barbarism ) , impossible simply to speak the truth to power ( since ...
... critical history , one that is con- stantly aware that it is insufficient simply to confront barbarism with enlightenment ( since enlightenment is already a kind of barbarism ) , impossible simply to speak the truth to power ( since ...
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... critical reason and instru- mental reason , truth and power - pairings that are always intimately connected , never precisely identical . This nonidentity , this capacity for a rational critique of rational domination that does not ...
... critical reason and instru- mental reason , truth and power - pairings that are always intimately connected , never precisely identical . This nonidentity , this capacity for a rational critique of rational domination that does not ...
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... critical and instrumental aspects of utopian reason are not separable . But their articulation is intelligi- ble , and so is the way their articulation articulates us . One of the pecu- liarities of the denunciation of the ...
... critical and instrumental aspects of utopian reason are not separable . But their articulation is intelligi- ble , and so is the way their articulation articulates us . One of the pecu- liarities of the denunciation of the ...
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Introduction | 3 |
Paradise NewModeled | 34 |
John Eliots Empirical Millennialism | 102 |
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