Download or read book The Utopian Mind and Other Papers written by Aurel Kolnai and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfinished at the time of Kolnai's death, The Utopian Mind should be widely welcomed by students of moral and political philosophy. It provides a powerful critique of the Utopian mode of valuation. Kolnai locates utopian thinking in totalitarian systems of the Right and Left and as an unspoken background to much liberal thought and to many of the best known theories of moral philosophy.