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A Tale of Two Utopias

The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968

Paul Berman author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:WW Norton & Co

Published:21st Jan '98

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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).

"Paul Berman is a wonderfully lucid presenter and analyzer of recent intellectual history." -- Nathan Glazer - New York Times Book Review

ISBN: 9780393316759

Dimensions: 188mm x 114mm x 23mm

Weight: 214g

352 pages