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Manuel, Frank Edward was born on September 12, 1910 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Morris and Jessica (Fredson) Manuel.
( This masterly study has a grand sweep. It ranges over ...)
This masterly study has a grand sweep. It ranges over centuries, with a long look backward over several millennia. Yet the history it unfolds is primarily the story of individuals: thinkers and dreamers who envisaged an ideal social order and described it persuasively, leaving a mark on their own and later times. The roster of utopians includes men of all stripes in different countries and eras--figures as disparate as More and Fourier, the Marquis de Sade and Edward Bellamy, Rousseau and Marx. Fascinating character studies of the major figures are among the delights of the book. Utopian writings run the gamut from fictional narratives to theoretical treatises, from political manifestos to constitutions for a new society. The Manuels have structured five centuries of utopian invention by identifying successive constellations, groups of thinkers joined by common social and moral concerns. Within this framework they analyze individual writings, in the context of the author's life and of the socio-economic, religious, and political exigencies of his time. Concentrating on innovative works, they highlight disjunctures as well as continuities in utopian thought from the Renaissance through the twentieth century. Witty and erudite, challenging in its interpretations and provocative in the questions it poses, the Manuels' anatomy of utopia is an adventure in ideas.
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(In this history Manuel ranges over the centuries, from an...)
In this history Manuel ranges over the centuries, from antiquity to recent times, analyzing the diverse responses of European Christendom - Catholic, Protestant, and freethinking - to the culture and religious thought of the Judaism that survived, even thrived, in its midst. It is a history of marked contrasts. Though prolific in the outpouring of diatribes, European writers never agreed about Jewish thought and religion. should the worlds embodying Jewish beliefs be burned or ignored? Should they be consulted for what might be learned from them? Manuel shows the "rediscovery" of historical Judaism by Renaissance humanists alongside the vicious attacks mounted by Reformation leaders. He surveys the Christian Hebraists in the period that followed: clergymen, university professors, and gentlemen-scholars who studied Jewish religious thought and Hebrew to further Christian purposes. And he discusses the many ends - missionary, political, eschatological, Judeophobic - to which Christian thinkers turned their learning. In the 18th century the English deists and French "philosophes" - notably Voltaire - virulently attacked what they described as a primitive oriental religion. Manuel's picture of writers in 19th-century Germany encompasses the learned research, negative image-making, and polemics of the period.
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( As Karl Marx the icon has fallen along with so many co...)
As Karl Marx the icon has fallen along with so many communist regimes, we are left with the mystery of Karl Marx the man, the complexities of a life that has profoundly affected millions. A Requiem for Karl Marx is Frank Manuel's searching meditation on that life, a learned and elegantly written engagement with the man and his work. Manuel gives us a psychological portrait rendered with sympathy and critical detachment, a probing look at the connections between the private drama of Marx's life and his revolutionary ideas. Manuel pursues these connections from Marx's adolescence and education in Trier through his university studies, marriage to a German baroness, and early affiliation with French and German radical groups. Here we see Marx in moments of youthful rapture, in periods of despair, in maneuvers of blatant hypocrisy, in outbursts of self-mockery. We follow his involuted response to his status as a converted Jew, observe the psychic toll of debilitating bouts of illness, and witness the shattering effects of his aggressive, often brutal conduct toward friend and foe alike. Manuel analyzes in intricate detail the central role of Marx's enduring relationship with Friedrich Engels, which appears to transcend the bounds of friendship, and his changing behavior toward his wife, Jenny, the neurotic and tragic figure who shared his dismal London exile. What becomes clear in this narrative is the link between Marx's personal life and his ideas about class struggle, revolutionary strategy, and utopia--as well as the impact of his personal vision and political tactics on the movements that followed him, down to our day.
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Manuel, Frank Edward was born on September 12, 1910 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Morris and Jessica (Fredson) Manuel.
AB, Harvard University, 1930. AM, Harvard University, 1931. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1933.
Diploma, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Politiques et Sociales, Paris, 1933. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Jewish Theological Seminary American, New York, 1979. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Brandeis University, 1986.
Various government positions, Washington, 1938-1943, 45-47;
professor of history, Brandeis U., Waltham, Massachusetts, 1949-1965, 77-86;
professor emeritus, since 1986;
professor of history, New York University, New York City, 1965-1976;
professor emeritus, New York University, New York City, since 1976. Visiting professor Harvard University, 1960, Hebrew U., Jerusalem, 1972, Oxford (England) University, 1972-1973, University of Chicago, 1975, University of California, 1976, 85, Boston University, 1986, 87-88. Editorial consultant Pegasus Publs., New York City, 1966-1967.
Visiting research fellow Australian National U., Canberra, 1974. Visiting scholar Phi Beta Kappa, 1978.
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Lieutenant United States Army, 1943-1945. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Fritzie Wilhelmina Prigohzy, October 6, 1936.