Millennialism, Utopianism, and Progress / Theodore Olson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olson, Theodore, Author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Millennialism.

Progress.

Genre:

Utopian fiction.

Utopias.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

I. Millennialism

Millennialism as a type

The exile and Hebrew history

The crisis of return

Daniel: the first apocalyptic

Daniel and non-canonical apocalyptic

Three new figures: Messiah, Son of Man, and Satan

Jesus as a millennial figure

Revelation

Responses to Jesus' delayed return

Montanism: the new millennialism

Joachim of Fiore and the third age

Joachim's successors

II. Utopianism

Utopia as a type

The decline of Greek justice

Plato: divine and human order

Christianity and utopia

The Hermetic tradition

More: the first utopia

Campanella: a 'marginal' utopia

Classic 'rational' utopias

III. The formation of the doctrine of progress

God become nature

Puritan millennialism transformed

Fair wind for France

The first progressivists: Turgot, Mercier, and Condorcet

Millennialism, utopianism, and progress

IV. Progress and the third age

Saint-Simon and the age of industry

Fourier and the age of harmony

Bellamy: corporate solidarity and organic change

V. Progress and will

The paradox of progress

Bacon and universal dominion

The general will

Skinner's age beyond will

The end of will

VI. Towards a critique of progress

Limit and perfection

The alienated will

Towards a critique.

Notes:

Reprinted in 2018.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-8323-0

OCLC:

1129154121