Download or read book The Sane Society Ideal in Modern Utopianism written by Kerry S. Walters and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study tracing the birth and development of a modern ideological goal: the sane society. The author posits that utopian visions of the perfect society are ideological in nature, reflecting Western capitalism's exaltation of scientism and instrumental reason. The text also deals with Mannheim and Marx on sociology of knowledge, Bacon's influence on scientific and sociological theoretical frameworks, and particular utopian models such as Bellamy's Looking Backwards.