Analysis reveals how political utopias short-circuit human nature, suggesting inherent flaws in idealistic governance.
Wight Martindale, Jr. says that John T. Farrell’s The Utopian Dilemma in the Western Political Imagination “is a brilliant, exhaustive, and challenging study” demonstrating that “political utopias are designed to short-circuit the foibles of human nature.”
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