Isbn: 9780465020003 - the End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in an Age of Apathy (18 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. The End of Utopia documents the widespread absence of the utopian impulse that has served for centuries as the engine for social opposition and political change. Jacoby argues that the retreat from dissent based on utopian vision signals not a political consensus but rather an exhaustion of political alternatives. We are facing the end of politics altogether, Russell Jacoby argues in The End of Utopia. Political contestation is premised on peoples capacity for offering competing visions of the future, but in a world that has run out of political ideas and no longer harbors any utopian visions, real political opposition is no longer possible. In particular, Jacoby traces the demise of liberal and leftist politics. Leftist intellectuals and critics no longer envision a different society, only a modified one. The left once dismissed the market as exploitative, but now honors it as rational and humane. The left used to disdain mass culture, but now celebrates it as rebellious. The left once rejected pluralism as superficial, but now resurrects pluralist ideas in the guise of multiculturalism.Ranging across a wide terrain of cultural and political phenomenathe end of the Cold War, the rise of multiculturalism, the acceptance of mass culture, the eclipse of independent intellectualsJacoby documents and laments a widespread retreat from the utopian spirit that has always been the engine for social and political change.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. The End of Utopia documents the widespread absence of the utopian impulse that has served for centuries as the engine for social opposition and political change. Jacoby argues that the retreat from dissent based on utopian vision signals not a political consensus but rather an exhaustion of political alternatives. We are facing the end of politics altogether, Russell Jacoby argues in The End of Utopia. Political contestation is premised on peoples capacity for offering competing visions of the future, but in a world that has run out of political ideas and no longer harbors any utopian visions, real political opposition is no longer possible. In particular, Jacoby traces the demise of liberal and leftist politics. Leftist intellectuals and critics no longer envision a different society, only a modified one. The left once dismissed the market as exploitative, but now honors it as rational and humane. The left used to disdain mass culture, but now celebrates it as rebellious. The left once rejected pluralism as superficial, but now resurrects pluralist ideas in the guise of multiculturalism.Ranging across a wide terrain of cultural and political phenomenathe end of the Cold War, the rise of multiculturalism, the acceptance of mass culture, the eclipse of independent intellectualsJacoby documents and laments a widespread retreat from the utopian spirit that has always been the engine for social and political change.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Clean, sturdy hardcover w/jacket. Light edge-wear. WF.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Original blue boards. DJ Not Price Clipped (26.00). First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Basic Books, 1999. Near Fine condition (would be Fine but for a remainder mark on the bottom edge) in Near Fine Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No fading. No owner's name or bookplate. Bright, clean, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. Chapter notes/bibliographical references. Index. First printing, with complete number row (10 987654321) on copyright page. By the author of THE LAST INTELLECTUALS. Dust Jacket blurb from Howard Zinn: "THE END OF UTOPIA is learned, bold, provocative, ferocious in its criticism of intellectuals on all parts of the political spectrum, and in the end suffused with a profoundly human sensibility." From the Dust Jacket: "In THE END OF UTOPIA, noted social critic and historian Russell Jacoby takes a sobering look at the future of politics and does not like what he sees." . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Original blue boards/DJ Not Price Clipped (26.00). 8vo. xiii, 236pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDPolitical Science; Good hard cover with dust jacket, tips bumped, and prompt shipping with tracking.

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Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 236 pages. A shattering and seminal work on what has happened to intellectuals and their impulse to change the world.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.