The Utopian Dilemma in the Western Political Imagination - Paperback

by John Farrell (Author)

In this volume, John Farrell shows that political utopias have a perennial opponent, the honor-based culture of aristocracy that dominated most of the world from ancient times into early modernity and whose status-based competitive psychology persists to the present day.

Author Biography

John Farrell is the Waldo W. Neikirk Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College, where he has been teaching since 1990.