George Klosko. Jacobins and Utopians: the Political Theory of Fundamental Moral Reform.(Book Review)

From: Utopian Studies | Date: March 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. xii + 200 pp. $17.00.

UTOPIANS AND UTOPIAN SCHOLARSHIP often do not adequately consider the means by which ideal societies might be brought into existence, according to George Klosko. By examining how such ideal societies might in theory be realized, Klosko hopes to reveal the real obstacles that radical reformers must overcome. In a survey of remarkable breadth and depth, Jacobins and Utopians considers the ancient lawgivers, Lycurgus and Solon; Socrates and Plato; Thomas More, Nicolo Machiavelli, and Jean Jacques Rousseau; ...

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