TY - BOOK N2 - "From the sex-free paradise of the Shakers to the worker's paradise of Marx, utopian ideas seem to have two things in common - they all are wonderfully plausible at the start and they all end up as disasters. In Visions of Utopia, three leading cultural critics - Edward Rothstein, Martin Marty, and Herbert Muschamp - look at the history of utopian thinking, exploring why they fail and why they are still worth pursuing."--Jacket. AB - "From the sex-free paradise of the Shakers to the worker's paradise of Marx, utopian ideas seem to have two things in common - they all are wonderfully plausible at the start and they all end up as disasters. In Visions of Utopia, three leading cultural critics - Edward Rothstein, Martin Marty, and Herbert Muschamp - look at the history of utopian thinking, exploring why they fail and why they are still worth pursuing."--Jacket. T1 - Visions of utopia / DA - ©2003. CY - Oxford ; CY - New York : AU - Rothstein, Edward, AU - Muschamp, Herbert. AU - Marty, Martin E., CN - HX806 PB - Oxford University Press, PP - Oxford ; PP - New York : PY - ©2003. N1 - Includes index. N1 - Based on a series of lectures. ID - 1380214 KW - Utopias. KW - Utopies. KW - Utopias. KW - Aufsatzsammlung KW - Utopie KW - Utopieën. SN - 0195144619 SN - 9780195144611 SN - 9780195171617 SN - 0195171616 TI - Visions of utopia / ER -