Books by Melvin Lasky

The most comprehensive study of ideology and utopia since Karl Mannheim's work of the 1930s, Utopia and Revolution can be understood as turning classical political theory on its head or, perhaps, inside out

There is a fateful moment in human history when the vision of a perfect society finds itself wedded to the idea of a perfect revolution. Melvin J. Lasky charts the course of this historic entanglement over some five turbulent centuries of Western history.