Millennialism, Utopianism, and Progress / / Theodore Olson.
The basis of the book is the provocative thesis that the idea of progress results from the uneasy eighteenth-century union of elements of millennial and utopian thought. Professor Olson traces changes in the major elements of millennialism since the days of Hebrew exile in Babylon, of utopianism sin...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1982 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Heritage
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART ONE, Millennialism
- PART TWO. Utopianism
- PART THREE. The formation of the doctrine of progress
- PART FOUR. Progress and the third age
- PART FIVE. Progress and will
- PART SIX. Towards a critique of progress
- Works cited
- Index