In Utopia: Six Kinds of Eden and the Search for a Better Paradise

In Utopia: Six Kinds of Eden and the Search for a Better Paradise
J. C. Hallman (Author)
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In 2005, J.C. Hallman came across a scientific paper about “Pleistocene Rewilding,” a peculiar idea from conservation biology that suggested repopulating bereft ecosystems with endangered “megafauna.” The plan sounded utterly utopian, but Hallman liked the idea as much as the scientists did—perhaps because he had grown up on a street called Utopia Road in a master-planned community in Southern California. Pleistocene Rewilding rekindled in him a longstanding fascination with utopian ideas, and he went on to spend three weeks at the world’s oldest “intentional community,” sail on the first ship where it’s possible to own “real estate,” train at the world’s largest civilian combat-school, and tour a $30 billion megacity built from scratch on an artificial island off the coast of Korea. In Utopia explores the history of utopian literature and thought in the narrative context of the real-life fruits of that history.

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• Published on: 2010-08-03
• Released on: 2010-08-03
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• 288 pages

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A Socialist Utopia in the New South: The Ruskin Colonies in Tennessee and Georgia, 1894-1901

A Socialist Utopia in the New South: The Ruskin Colonies in Tennessee and Georgia, 1894-1901
W. Fitzhugh Brundage (Author)

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• Published on: 1996-08-01
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

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by W. Fitzhugh Brundage - University of Chicago Press (1996) - Paperback - ISBN 0252065484 9780252065484

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Socialist Utopia in the New South The Ruskin Colonies in Tennessee and Georgia, 1894-1901, ISBN-13: 9780252065484, ISBN-10: 0252065484

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Categories: Collective settlements, United States->Social conditions->1865-1918. Contributors: W. Fitzhugh Brundage - Author. Format: Paperback

Utopian Legacies: A History of Conquest & Oppression in the Western World

Utopian Legacies: A History of Conquest & Oppression in the Western World
John Mohawk (Author)
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Paradoxically, contemporary horrors like ethnic cleansing are deeply rooted in humanity's highest aspirations, which have given rise to countless similar upheavals and atrocities perpetrated over millennia. Although the ideals embodied in religion and philosophy are considered to be humanity's prime "civilising" force, religions that preach love have been used to justify bloody massacres, and utopian ideals have fomented intolerance and persecution of those who were perceived as obstacles to the realisation of an ideal society. John Mohawk, a distinguished Native American historian, examines this paradox and traces the role of utopian thinking as the rationale for religious wars, subjugation of indigenous peoples, genocide, enslavement, plunder, economic domination, and campaigns of world conquest from the time of the ancient Greeks. Mohawk examines the hidden dynamic within utopian thinking and the danger it poses when it is adopted by powerful groups who use it to serve their own interests. He points out that the danger lies not in the utopian ideal itself but in the parallel assumption that its followers are in possession of the only "truth" and are therefore justified in forcing their "better way of life" on other cultures or nations for the ultimate good of humanity. In a gripping historical narrative, Mohawk traces the impact of utopian thinking on the rise of Western culture in ancient Greece and Rome, the emergence of the Christian empire, and the holy wars of the Middle Ages. Showing how this mindset has shaped Western development, he makes it clear that the utopian legacy still influences contemporary social and political movements at home and abroad. Our greatest challenge is to find ways to defuse its harmful effects on cultures different from our own, while preserving our aspirations and personal ideals. Mohawk argues that only a pluralistic outlook can truly support peace and understanding among the peoples of the world.

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• Published on: 1999-12
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 6.10" h x .79" w x 9.06" l, .44 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

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Categories: Militarism, Utopias->Religious aspects, Imperialism->History. Contributors: John Mohawk - Author. Format: Paperback

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Fruitlands

Fruitlands
Richard Francis (Author)
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This is the first definitive account of Fruitlands, one of history’s most unsuccessful—but most significant—utopian experiments. It was established in Massachusetts in 1843 by Bronson Alcott (whose ten-year-old daughter Louisa May, future author of Little Women, was among the members) and an Englishman called Charles Lane, under the watchful gaze of Emerson, Thoreau, and other New England intellectuals.

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• Published on: 2010-11-02
• Released on: 2010-11-02
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Vintage Postcard Fruitlands and the Wayside Museum Harvard MA Fruitlands The philosopher's study Linen unused Published by The Meriden Gravure Company Massachusetts Harvard

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The Mercury Fountain

The Mercury Fountain
Eliza Factor (Author)
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AEliza Factor’s first novel, The Mercury Fountain, explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people. Though the action takes place between 1900 and 1923, the resonance feel alarmingly contemporary. . . Factor counters convention with a sharp sense of character, evocative subplots and the dangerous allure of mercury itself.”
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"Factor develops her characters in entertaining ways while building a novel of social realism."
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Set in a remote stretch of desert near the border of west Texas and Mexico at the turn of the twentieth century, this story follows the pursuits of Owen Scraperton as he struggles to establish Pristina, a utopian community based on mercury mining that aims to resolve the great questions of labor and race. As age, love, and experience cause Owen to modify his original vision, his fiercely idealistic daughter Victoria remains true to Pristina's founding principlesAsetting them up for a major conflict that captures the imagination of the entire town. The Mercury Fountain combines realistic modern writing with elements from American and Greco-Roman mythology, taking its cue from Mercury, the most slippery and mischievous of gods, who rules over science, commerce, eloquence, and thievery.

Eliza Factor was born in 1968 in Boston, Massachusetts, and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. The Mercury Fountain is her debut novel.

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• Published on: 2012-02-28
• Original language: English
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Set in a remote stretch of desert near the border of west Texas and Mexico at the turn of the twentieth century, this story follows the pursuits of Owen Scraperton as he struggles to establish Pristina, a utopian community based on mercury mining that aims to resolve the great questions of labor and race. Eliza Factor was born in 1968 in Boston, Massachusetts. She has lived in Washington, DC; Blois, France; San Francisco, CA; Tempe, AZ; and New York, NY. She has spent a lot of time in the desert, sniffing out old mercury mines, as well as waiting tables, teaching English, painting, filmmaking, roofing, and bike messengering. She now...

Time of the Quickening: Prophecies for the Coming Utopian Age

Time of the Quickening: Prophecies for the Coming Utopian Age
Susan B., Ph.D. Martinez (Author)
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This book reveals a 12,000-year-old Egyptian system of prediction based not on the planets but on Earth’s magnetic rhythms. It shows that our current “time of troubles” is the embryonic stage of a Utopian Age--the “Quickening” of the human race.

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• Published on: 2011-03-28
• Released on: 2011-03-28
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Categories: New Thought * Alternative Beliefs. Contributors: Susan B. Martinez - Author. Format: Paperback

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Martinez presents a guide to the science of prophecy, why so many predictions never come to pass, and the Golden Age ahead. She reveals that we are not headed for Rapture and the Apocalypse but for "the Quickening," the embryonic stage of a Utopian Age.

People of the Rainbow: A Nomadic Utopia

People of the Rainbow: A Nomadic Utopia
Michael I. Niman (Author)
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Since 1972 the Rainbow Family of Living Light, a loosely organized and anarchistic nomadic community, has been holding large gatherings in remote forests to pray for world peace and create a model of a functioning utopian society. Michael I. Niman’s People of the Rainbow, originally published in 1997, was the first comprehensive study of this countercultural group and its eclectic philosophy of environmentalism, feminism, peace activism, group sharing, libertarianism, and consensus government. It is a book yet to be superseded.

This second edition of Niman’s compelling and insightful work brings the Rainbow story up to date with a new introduction and two extensive new epilogues. While the big annual Rainbow “Gatherings” have drawn fewer numbers in recent years, Niman notes, the Rainbow ethos has in many ways migrated to the mainstream, as Rainbow notions about alternative medicine and environmental sustainability, for example, have gathered wider acceptance and influenced the national dialogue. Meanwhile, Rainbow movements in other regions, from Eastern Europe and the Middle East to Asia and Australia, are thriving.

In addition to addressing changes within the Rainbow Family and its complex relationship
to “Babylon” (what Rainbows call mainstream culture), the book’s new material explores the growing harassment Rainbows now face from U.S. law enforcement agencies—
especially those associated with the National Forest Service. As Niman contends, this particular saga of a U.S. bureaucracy at war with its own citizens is a subplot in the larger—and disturbing—story of how the relationship between Americans and their government has changed during the first decade of the twenty-first century.

In its nuanced portrait of an intriguing subculture, its successes, and its limitations, People of the Rainbow remains a significant contribution to the study of utopian communities in the United States and their ongoing legacy.

Michael I. Niman is a professor of journalism and media studies in the Communication Department at Buffalo State College in New York.

For additional resources related to this new edition, see http://buffalostate.edu/peopleoftherainbow.

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• Published on: 2011-08-30
• Original language: English
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Utopias: A Brief History from Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities

Utopias: A Brief History from Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities
Howard P. Segal (Author)
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This brief history connects the past and present of utopian thought, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, right up to present day visions of cyberspace communities and paradise.

• Explores the purpose of utopias, what they reveal about the societies who conceive them, and how utopias have changed over the centuries
• Unique in including both non-Western and Western visions of utopia
• Explores the many forms utopias have taken – prophecies and oratory, writings, political movements, world's fairs, physical communities – and also discusses high-tech and cyberspace visions for the first time
• The first book to analyze the implicitly utopian dimensions of reform crusades like Technocracy of the 1930s and Modernization Theory of the 1950s, and the laptop classroom initiatives of recent years

• Rank: #268909 in Books
• Published on: 2012-05-29
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 8.46" h x .55" w x 5.39" l, .74 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

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Categories: Utopias * General. Contributors: Howard P. Segal - Author. Format: Hardcover

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"This brief history connects the past and present of utopian thought, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, right up to present day visions of cyberspace communities and paradise. Explores the purpose of utopias, what they reveal about the societieswho conceive them, and how utopias have changed over the centuries Unique in including both non-Western and Western visions of utopia Explores the many forms utopias have taken - prophecies and oratory, writings, political movements, world's fairs, physical communities - and also discusses high-tech and cyberspace visions for the first time The first book to analyze the implicitly utopian dimensions of reform crusades like Technocracy of the 1930s and Modernization Theory of the 1950s, and the laptop classroom initiatives of recent years "--

Oneida: Utopian Community to Modern Corporation

Oneida: Utopian Community to Modern Corporation
Maren Lockwood Carden (Author)

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• Published on: 1998-07
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 9.02" h x .55" w x 5.98" l, .71 pounds
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Oneida Utopian Community to Modern Corporation, ISBN-13: 9780815605232, ISBN-10: 0815605234

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Paths in Utopia (Martin Buber Library)

Paths in Utopia (Martin Buber Library)
Martin Buber (Author), R. F. Hull (Translator)

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Utopian

• Rank: #323303 in Books
• Published on: 1996-09-01
• Original language: German
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• Dimensions: 9.06" h x .47" w x 5.47" l, .44 pounds
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Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution

Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution
Richard Stites (Author)
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The revolutionary ideals of equality, communal living, proletarian morality, and technology worship, rooted in Russian utopianism, generated a range of social experiments which found expression, in the first decade of the Russian revolution, in festival, symbol, science fiction, city planning, and the arts. In this study, historian Richard Stites offers a vivid portrayal of revolutionary life and the cultural factors--myth, ritual, cult, and symbol--that sustained it, and describes the principal forms of utopian thinking and experimental impulse. Analyzing the inevitable clash between the authoritarian elements in the Bolshevik's vision and the libertarian behavior and aspirations of large segments of the population, Stites interprets the pathos of utopian fantasy as the key to the emotional force of the Bolshevik revolution which gave way in the early 1930s to bureaucratic state centralism and a theology of Stalinism.

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• Published on: 1991-11-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.21" h x 1.10" w x 6.14" l, 1.16 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 344 pages

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America's Communal Utopias

America's Communal Utopias
Donald E. Pitzer (Author)
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From the Shakers to the Branch Davidians, America's communal utopians have captured the popular imagination. Seventeen original essays here demonstrate the relevance of such groups to the mainstream of American social, religious, and economic life. The contributors examine the beliefs and practices of the most prominent utopian communities founded before 1965, including the long-overlooked Catholic monastic communities and Jewish agricultural colonies. Also featured are the Ephrata Baptists, Moravians, Shakers, Harmonists, Hutterites, Inspirationists of Amana, Mormons, Owenites, Fourierists, Icarians, Janssonists, Theosophists, Cyrus Teed's Koreshans, and Father Divine's Peace Mission.

Based on a new conceptual framework known as developmental communalism, the book examines these utopian movements throughout the course of their development—before, during, and after their communal period. Each chapter includes a brief chronology, giving basic information about the group discussed. An appendix presents the most complete list of American utopian communities ever published.

The contributors are Jonathan G. Andelson, Karl J. R. Arndt, Pearl W. Bartelt, Priscilla J. Brewer, Donald F. Durnbaugh, Lawrence Foster, Carl J. Guarneri, Robert V. Hine, Gertrude E. Huntington, James E. Landing, Dean L. May, Lawrence J. McCrank, J. Gordon Melton, Donald E. Pitzer, Robert P. Sutton, Jon Wagner, and Robert S. Weisbrot.

• Rank: #219571 in Books
• Published on: 1997-05-26
• Released on: 1997-05-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.34" w x 6.10" l, 1.80 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 560 pages

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From the Shakers to the Branch Davidians, America's communal utopians have captured the popular imagination. Seventeen original essays here demonstrate the relevance of such groups to the mainstream of American social, religious, and economic life. The contributors examine the beliefs and practic...

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Categories: Collective settlements->United States->History, Communitarianism->United States. Contributors: The University of North Carolina Press - Author. Format: Paperback

Utopias on Puget Sound, 1885-1915

Utopias on Puget Sound, 1885-1915
Charles Pierce Lewarne (Author)
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• Rank: #123406 in Books
• Published on: 1995-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.86" h x 5.98" w x .87" l, 1.11 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 16 pages

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Utopia, The Perennial Heresy

Utopia, The Perennial Heresy
Thomas Molnar (Author)
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Utopian

The utopian is generally regarded as a harmless visionary, of course, whose system of thought suffers largely from a naivete about things as they really are. In this work, Thomas Molnar disputes this view and shows that the utopian thinker can be (and often has been) extremely dangerous. Thus it may surprise many that Molnar sees Teilhard de Chardin and Karl Marx sharing the same ideological umbrella, despite the theological differences between them. Going further, the author argues strongly that utopianism is a persistent historical phenomenon seriously at odds with that Christian realism which remains as one of the supports of Western civilization. For the utopianóreligious or atheisticóaims, despite all disclaimers, at the deification of man. Further, in Thomas Molnar's cogent thesis, utopian doctrines implicitly deny the central Christian understanding of original sin. The perfection which they seek and the abstract Man of whom they speak alike conflict with the Christian understanding of the free human will and a personal, transcendent God. Co-published with The Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

• Rank: #1552674 in Books
• Published on: 1990-02-16
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .7 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 260 pages

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"An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist programThe Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For FA Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasing economic control would lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.First published by the University of Chicago Press on September 18, 1944, The Road to Serfdom garnered immediate, widespread attention. The first printing of 2000 copies was exhausted instantly, and within six months more than 30000 books were sold. In April 1945, Reader's Digest published a condensed version of the book, and soon thereafter the Book-of-the-Month Club distributed this edition to more than 600000 readers. A perennial best seller, the book has sold 400000 copies in the United States alone and has been translated into more than twenty languages, along the way becoming one of the most important and influential books of the century.With this new edition, The Road to Serfdom takes its place in the series The Collected Works of FA Hayek. The volume includes a foreword by series editor and leading Hayek scholar Bruce Caldwell explaining the book's origins and publishing history and assessing common misinterpretations of Hayek's thought. Caldwell has also standardized and corrected Hayek's references and added helpful new explanatory notes. Supplemented with an appendix of related materials ranging from prepublication reports on the initial manuscript to forewords to earlier editions by John Chamberlain, Milton Friedman, and Hayek himself, this new edition of The Road to Serfdom will be the definitive version of Friedrich Hayek's enduring masterwork.File Size: 630 KBPrint Length: 298 pagesPage Numbers Source ISBN: 0226320553 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (October 22, 2010) Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.Language: EnglishASIN: B0048EJXCK"

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Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia

Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia
Richard Francis (Author)
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This is the first definitive account of Fruitlands, one of history’s most unsuccessful—but most significant—utopian experiments. It was established in Massachusetts in 1843 by Bronson Alcott (whose ten-year-old daughter Louisa May, future author of Little Women, was among the members) and an Englishman called Charles Lane, under the watchful gaze of Emerson, Thoreau, and other New England intellectuals.

Alcott and Lane developed their own version of the doctrine known as Transcendentalism, hoping to transform society and redeem the environment through a strict regime of veganism and celibacy. But physical suffering and emotional conflict—particularly between Lane and Alcott’s wife, Abigail—made the community unsustainable.

Drawing on the letters and diaries of those involved, Richard Francis explores the relationship between the complex philosophical beliefs held by Alcott, Lane, and their fellow idealists and their day-to-day lives. The result is a vivid and often very funny narrative of their travails, demonstrating the dilemmas and conflicts inherent to any utopian experiment and shedding light on a fascinating period of American history.

• Rank: #152538 in Books
• Published on: 2010-11-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.21" h x 1.22" w x 6.14" l, 1.46 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 344 pages

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Categories: Transcendentalism (New England), Alcott, Amos Bronson (1799-1888), Transcendentalism (New England). Contributors: Richard Francis - Author. Format: Paperback

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Categories: Alcott, Amos Bronson (1799-1888), Transcendentalism (New England), Alcott, Amos Bronson (1799-1888). Contributors: Richard Francis - Author. Format: Hardcover

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Literary History-United States 18th and 19th Century

Utopia (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)

Utopia (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
Thomas More (Author)
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Philosophy-General

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Review Minor novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1852. The novel, about a group of people living in an experimental community, was based in part on Hawthorne's disillusionment with the Brook Farm utopian community near Boston in the 1840s.----This text refers to an alternateedition.From the Publisher Founded in 1906 by JM Dent, the Everyman Library hasalways tried to make the best books ever written available to thegreatest number of people at the lowest possible price. Unique editorialfeatures that help Everyman Paperback Classics stand out from the crowdinclude: a leading scholar or literary critic's introduction to the text,a biography of the author, a chronology of her or his life and times, ahistorical selection of criticism, and a concise plot summary.All bookspublished since 1993 have also been completely restyled: all type hasbeen reset, to offer a clarity and ease of reading unique among editionsof the classics; a vibrant, full-color cover design now complements thesegreat texts with beautiful contemporary works of art. But the bestfeature must be Everyman's uniquely low price. Each Everyman title offersthese extensive materials at a price that competes with the mostinexpensive editions on the market-but Everyman Paperbacks have durablebinding, quality paper, and the highest editorial and scholarlystandards.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) Introduction by Jenny Mezciems *Author: More, Thomas/ Mezciems, Jenny *Series Title: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics *Binding Type: Hardcover *Number of Pages: 176 *Publication Date: 1992/04/28 *Language: English *Dimensions: 8.44 x 6.34 x 0.66 inches

Voyages to Utopia: From Monastery to Commune : The Search for the Perfect Society in Modern Times

Voyages to Utopia: From Monastery to Commune : The Search for the Perfect Society in Modern Times
William Maxwell McCord (Author)

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The perennial quest for a better society has, all too often, ended in disappointment, enforced conformity and even terror, yet at other times utopian vision has created a good place in which to live. Sociologist William McCord traces the realities of utopian ventures: those that have already changed the world and offer the promise or peril of future influence. He examines such utopias as those created by the kibbutzniks of Israel and the flower children of California; religious communities founded by the Franciscans and Gandhi's descendants in India; socialist societies that have tried to live out Marxist myths; the welfare state in Denmark and capitalist "paradises" in Confucian Singapore. The author also recounts the progress and the price of such ventures.

• Rank: #1840242 in Books
• Published on: 1990-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 384 pages

Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction

Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction
Lyman Tower Sargent (Author)
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There are many debates about what constitutes a utopia. Are utopias benign or dangerous? Is the idea of utopianism essential to Christianity or heretical? What is the relationship between utopia and ideology? In this Very Short Introduction, Lyman Sargent, one of the leading scholars in the field of utopian studies, explores these issues and examines utopianism and its history, discussing the role of utopianism in literature and in the development of colonies and in immigration. The idea of utopia has become commonplace in social and political thought, both negatively and positively. Sargent notes that some thinkers see a trajectory from utopia to totalitarianism, with violence an inevitable part of the mix. Others see utopia directly connected to freedom and as a necessary element in the fight against totalitarianism. In Christianity, utopia is labeled as both heretical and as a fundamental part of Christian belief, and such debates are also central to such fields as architecture, town and city planning, and sociology among many others. Sargent addresses all these issues in this clear, compact introduction.

• Rank: #422424 in Books
• Published on: 2010-10-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 6.85" h x .35" w x 4.45" l, .30 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

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