An edition of The dragons of expectation: reality and delusion in the course of history (2005)

The dragons of expectation

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An edition of The dragons of expectation: reality and delusion in the course of history (2005)

The dragons of expectation

reality and delusion in the course of history

1st ed.

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  • 3 Want to read

A philosophical defense of modern civilization traces the consequences of seductive ideas throughout history, analyzing how false nostrums have led to corruption within every type of government and in the academic world.

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W.W. Norton & Co.
Language
English
Pages
256

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Subjects

Ideology, Modern Civilization, Social history, History, Civilization, modern
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Cover of: The dragons of expectation
The dragons of expectation: reality and delusion in the course of history
2006, Duckworth, GERALD DUCKWORTH & CO LTD
in English
Cover of: The dragons of expectation
The dragons of expectation: reality and delusion in the course of history
2005, W.W. Norton & Co.
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: The dragons of expectation
The dragons of expectation: reality and delusion in the course of history
2005, W.W. Norton
in English - 1st ed

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Table of Contents

Heads above water and vice versa --
Lemming lore --
Harpooning some word-whales --
Choose your enlightenment --
After utopia --
Internationalism, supranationalism --
Slouching towards Byzantium --
1917 : "revolution" and reality --
Revolutionary high finance : some notes on a neglected theme --
Into the planned economy --
Inside the new society --
With and against Hitler --
Cold war : heated imaginations --
A gaggle of misleaders --
A collapse of unreality --
The whys of art --
Bureaucracies and barbarism --
Awake to affirmation --
"No one foresaw the collapse of the Soviet system" --
An Anglosphere in the neosphere (a political exercise).

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-239) and index.

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New York
Other Titles
Reality and delusion in the course of history

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Dewey Decimal Class
306/.09
Library of Congress
HN13 .C6445 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 256 p. ;
Number of pages
256

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24752048M
Internet Archive
dragonsofexpecta00conq
ISBN 10
0393059332
ISBN 13
9780393059335
LCCN
2004019159
OCLC/WorldCat
56419687

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