Utopian moments : reading utopian texts
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Utopian moments : reading utopian texts
（Textual moments in the history of political thought）
Bloomsbury Academic, 2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-149) and index
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Description
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Is it possible to create a better world? Can this be done without the image of an ideal world to guide us? What would such a world be like?
There has been a marked renewal of interest in utopian thought, as the exposed economic, social and political dysfunctions of modern society have forced us to re-examine our visions of the future. Yet the wealth of utopian literature on which we could draw remains inaccessible or poorly understood. This book readdresses this imbalance, with a collection of essays, each centred on a key passage in a canonical utopian work that challenges the commonly accepted interpretation of that work and allows us to examine it with fresh insight. At the same time, by contextualising each passage within the text as a whole, readers are enabled to reflect on the meaning and reception of the work and on its significance in the history of utopian thought. Broad in scope and original in approach, this textbook is an encouragement to students and scholars alike to read the utopian classics afresh.
Table of Contents
1. J.C. Davis and Miguel A. Ramiro Aviles, Introduction
2. George M. Logan, Thomas More's "Utopia" (tbc)
3. Susan Bruce, Colonialists, Refugees and the Nature of Sufficiency
4. J.C. Davis, Reading "Utopia"
5. Bronwen Price, 'A dark light': Spectacle and Secrecy in Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis"
6. Maurizio Cambi, Tommaso Campanella, the "City of Sun" and the guardian stars.
7. Edward Thompson, Johann Valentin's "Christianopolis" (tbc)
8. Nadia Minerva, So Close, So Far: the Puzzle of "Antangil"
9. Miguel Angel Ramiro Aviles, "Sinapia", a Political Journey to the Antipodes of Spain
10. John Christian Laursen and Cyrus Masroori, The Persian Moment in Denis Veiras's "History of the Sevarambians"
11.John Gurney, Gerrard Winstanley's "The Law of Freedom": Context and Continuity
12. J.C. Davis, "de te Fabula narratur": "Oceana" and James Harrington's Narrative Constitutionalism
13. Gaby Mahlberg, An island with potential: Henry Neville's "The Isle of Pines"
14. K. Steven Vincent, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794) (tbc)
15. Claudio de Boni, Nature and Utopia in Morelly's "Code De La Nature"
16. David Leopold, The Utopian Organization of Work in Icaria
17. Gregory Claeys, A Tale of Two Cities: Robert Owen and the Search for Utopia, 1815-1817
18. Jonathan Beecher, Women's Rights and Women's Liberation and the 'Riddle' of Charles Fourier's "Theory of the Four Movements"
19. Neil McWilliam, How to Change the World: Claude-Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
20. Matthew Beaumont, The Horror of Strangeness: Bellamy's Psychology of the Utopian Imagination in "Looking Backward"
21. Richard Nate, The incompatibility I could not resolve: Ambivalence in H.G. Wells's "A Modern Utopia"
22. Laurence Davis and Peter G. Stillman, Utopian Journeying: Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Dispossessed"
23. Lyman Tower Sargent, Conclusion
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