"Jacobins and Utopians" examines the politics of ideal societies and the means necessary to bring them into existence. George Klosko reveals how discussions of fundamental moral reform lead inexorably to questions of political power. Machiavelli classically articulated the claim that unarmed prophets go to the gallows. Themes of revolution play an integral role in Klosko s study as the figures he explores frequently concerned themselves with the means of becoming armed.
Klosko focuses particularly on what he calls educational realism as a means of channeling political power in pursuit of...