Hardcover, 691 pages
German language
Published Sept. 12, 1989 by Rowohlt Verlag.
Über die Ursprünge einer Metapher oder eine Geschichte des politischen Temperaments
Hardcover, 691 pages
German language
Published Sept. 12, 1989 by Rowohlt Verlag.
There is a fateful moment in human history when the vision of the perfect society confronts the movement toward violent social change. In a remarkable feat of scholarship in intellectual history, Melvin J. Lasky charts the course of this confrontation over some five centuries. In so doing he traces the ideological extension of the human personality through the writings of political theorists, philosophers, poets, and historians—from Dante to More, from More to Marx.