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Selecting a wide range of examples of obsession and compulsion in western intellectual, political and institutional behaviour, Conway tries to show how the rage for earthly perfection can produce forms of social neurosis which masquerade under noble abstractions we call "freedom", "progress", "democracy" and "equal rights", all of which have ceased to be reasonable ideals and have turned into new forms of idolatry. To distract ourselves and to drown our dread of the future, we plunge into ever louder, more glittering forms of industry and entertainment. "The Rage for Utopia" explodes the vision of reality accepted by most western people and argues that our problems lie not in the world but in our false perceptions of it. Conway ends on a note of spiritual hope and optimism by suggesting ways out of the obsessively created maze of structures in which western societies have lost themselves. Ronald Conway has spent half a lifetime dealing with psychological suffering as a way of spotlighting aspects of western history and society in terms of people's most grotesque mistakes and deepest longings.
He asserts that each individual contains the answers to the world's anxieties in microcosm if only they had the wit to see it.
- Publisher Name:Allen & Unwin
- Product Format:Paperback
- ISBN: XV81863731829
- Author:Conway, Ronald
- Publication Date:1993-02-19
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