Can We Live Better 7 Classic Utopias

Author : Plato,Thomas More,Tommaso Campanella,Francis Bacon,Edward Bellamy,William Morris,Samuel Butler
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 1404 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2300000061901

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Can we live better? 7 classic utopias by Plato,Thomas More,Tommaso Campanella,Francis Bacon,Edward Bellamy,William Morris,Samuel Butler Pdf

"Can we live better? 7 classic utopias” is a collection of the most famous classical works on the topic of an ideal society. For thousands of years human beings have dreamt of perfect worlds, worlds free of conflict, hunger and unhappiness. But can these worlds ever exist in reality? Many thinkers and authors have sought an answer to this question. Utopia is a perfect paradise that doesn’t exist, but which we all dream of anyway. Author Thomas More actually created the noun in one of his books to describe an imaginary island where all systems—political, social, and legal—are perfect and operate harmoniously. The collection includes works by Plato, Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella, Francis Bacon, Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Samuel Butler. Contents: Plato - The Republic Thomas More - Utopia Tommaso Campanella - The City of The Sun Frances Bacon - The New Atlantis Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards: from 2000 to 1887 William Morris - News from Nowhere Samuel Butler - Erewhon

Author : Plato,Thomas More,Samuel Butler,Tommaso Campanella,Francis Bacon,Edward Bellamy,William Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3966611228

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CAN WE LIVE BETTER7 СLASSIC UTOPIAS by Plato,Thomas More,Samuel Butler,Tommaso Campanella,Francis Bacon,Edward Bellamy,William Morris Pdf

Author : Peter Swirski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429628139

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American Utopia by Peter Swirski Pdf

From Black Tuesday to the White House, from Plato to Robert Nozick, from Eugene Debs to Richard Nixon, from Peter Cornelis Plockhoy to the hippie communes of the Sixties, from universal basic income to utopian basic income, from proverbial wisdom to multilevel selection, from Big Data to paleomorality, from Prisoner’s Dilemma to social-engineering Israeli kindergartens, from time travel to gene engineering, from the pretzel logic of meritocracy to deaggressing humanity, American Utopia maps the pitfalls and windfalls of social reform in the name of the human use of human beings. Interrogating the assumptions behind four outré utopias by Thomas M. Disch, Bernard Malamud, Kurt Vonnegut, and Margaret Atwood, the book interrogates the assumptions that have historically been central to the utopian project. Whence the seeds of social discontent? Whence our taste for egoism and altruism? For waging war and waging peace? Can we bioengineer human nature to specifications? Should we? Who makes better guardians: humans or machines? And who will guard the guardians?

Author : Thomas More,Francis Bacon,Tommaso Campanella
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Education
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2300000062809

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The Great Utopias (illustrated) by Thomas More,Francis Bacon,Tommaso Campanella Pdf

The Greate Utopias illustrated is a collection of the most famous classical works on the topic of an ideal society. “Can we live better?” For thousands of years human beings have dreamt of perfect worlds, worlds free of conflict, hunger and unhappiness. But can these worlds ever exist in reality? Many thinkers and authors have sought an answer to this question. Utopia is a perfect paradise that doesn’t exist, but which we all dream of anyway. Author Thomas More actually created the noun in one of his books to describe an imaginary island where all systems — political, social, and legal — are perfect and operate harmoniously. The collection includes works by Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella, Francis Bacon.

Author : Clint Jones,Cameron Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317027584

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The Individual and Utopia by Clint Jones,Cameron Ellis Pdf

Central to the idea of a perfect society is the idea that communities must be strong and bound together with shared ideologies. However, while this may be true, rarely are the individuals that comprise a community given primacy of place as central to a strong communal theory. This volume moves away from the dominant, current macro-level theorising on the subject of identity and its relationship to and with globalising trends, focusing instead on the individual’s relationship with utopia so as to offer new interpretive approaches for engaging with and examining utopian individuality. Interdisciplinary in scope and bringing together work from around the world, The Individual and Utopia enquires after the nature of the utopian as citizen, demonstrating the inherent value of making the individual central to utopian theorizing and highlighting the methodologies necessary for examining the utopian individual. The various approaches employed reveal what it is to be an individual yoked by the idea of citizenship and challenge the ways that we have traditionally been taught to think of the individual as citizen. As such, it will appeal to scholars with interests in social theory, philosophy, literature, cultural studies, architecture, and feminist thought, whose work intersects with political thought, utopian theorizing, or the study of humanity or human nature.

Author : Simon Spiegel,Andrea Reiter,Marcy Goldberg
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786835253

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Utopia and Reality by Simon Spiegel,Andrea Reiter,Marcy Goldberg Pdf

Since publication of Thomas More‘s Utopia more than five hundred years ago, there has been a steady stream of literary works that depict a better world; positive utopias in film, however, have been scarce. There is a consensus that utopias in the Morean tradition are not suited to fiction film, and research has accordingly focused on dystopias. Starting from the insight that utopias are always a critical reaction to the deficits of the present, Utopia and Reality takes a different approach by looking into the under-researched area of propaganda and documentary films for depictions of better worlds. This volume brings together researchers from two fields that have so far seen little exchange – documentary studies and utopian scholarship – and covers a wide range of films from Soviet avant-garde to propaganda videos for the terror organisation ISIS, from political-activist to ecofeminist and interactive documentaries.

Author : Christine Rees
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317898153

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Utopian Imagination and Eighteenth Century Fiction by Christine Rees Pdf

Utopian fiction was a particularly rich and important genre during the eighteenth century. It was during this period that a relatively new phenomenon appeared: the merging of utopian writing per se with other fictional genres, such as the increasingly dominant novel. However, while early modern and nineteenth and twentieth century utopias have been the focus of much attention, the eighteenth century has largely been neglected. Utopian Imagination and Eighteenth Century Fiction combines these major areas of interest, interpreting some of the most fascinating and innovative fictions of the period and locating them in a continuing tradition of utopian writing which stretches back through the Renaissance to the Ancient World. Begining with a survey of the recurrent topics in utopian writing - power structures in the state, money, food, sex, the role of women, birth, education and death - the book brings together canonical eighteenth century texts countaining powerful utopian elements, such as Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels and Rasselas, and less familiar works, to examine the reworking of these topics in a new context. The unfamiliar texts, including Gaudentio di Lucca, are described in detail to give students an idea of relevant material across a broad area. A section is devoted specifically to women writes, an area which has become the focus of attention. The mixture of texts provides a useful cross-reference for students tackling the subject from various perspectives and the comprehensive bibliography provides a valuable tool for those with general or specific interests

Author : Rhiannon Firth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136580727

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Utopian Politics by Rhiannon Firth Pdf

In the context of global problems such as the economic downturn, escalating inequality, terrorism, resource depletion and climate change, cynicism prevails in contemporary politics, which need not be the case. Utopian Politics confronts a world intensely aware of the problems that we face and sadly lacking in solutions, positing a utopian articulation of citizenship focused on community participation at a grassroots level. By re-examining central concepts and thinkers in political theory, this book re-casts the concepts of utopia and citizenship both as part of the classical philosophical tradition and simultaneously as part of the cutting edge of radical alternatives. This book includes never-before published ethnographic research, interviews and photographs from a range of autonomous UK communities, to show how the boundaries of politics and citizenship can be questioned and proposes an innovative methodology inspired by classical and post-structural anarchism. By considering ideas and practices that are generally considered to be marginal to mainstream political theory and practice, the book encourages readers to think about longstanding and central political debates in an entirely new, and creative way. Utopian Politics will be of interest to students and scholars of political theory, ethics and citizenship.

Author : Edward James,Farah Mendlesohn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521016576

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The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction by Edward James,Farah Mendlesohn Pdf

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Author : Peter Lucas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400715608

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Ethics and Self-Knowledge by Peter Lucas Pdf

This book explores the theoretical basis of our ethical obligations to others as self-knowing beings - this task being envisaged as an essential supplement to a traditional ethic of respect for persons. Authoritative knowledge of others brings with it certain obligations, which are reflected in (inter alia) the moral and legal safeguards designed to ensure that certain information is ‘put out of play’ for job selection purposes etc. However, the theoretical basis for such obligations has never been fully clarified. This book begins by identifying a distinctive class of ‘interpretive’ moral wrongs (including stereotyping, discrimination and objectification). It then shows how our obligations in respect of these wrongs can be understood, drawing on insights from the tradition of philosophical reflection on recognition. The book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the adequacy of a modern ethic of respect for persons – particularly in applied and professional ethics.

Author : Frank Edward MANUEL,Fritzie Prigohzy Manuel,Frank Edward Manuel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 907 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674040564

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Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank Edward MANUEL,Fritzie Prigohzy Manuel,Frank Edward Manuel Pdf

The authors 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.

Author : Ernest N. Emenyonu,Chimalum Nwankwo,Louisa Uchum Egbunike
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847012852

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Speculative & Science Fiction by Ernest N. Emenyonu,Chimalum Nwankwo,Louisa Uchum Egbunike Pdf

"Over the past two decades, there has been a resurgence in the writing of African and African diaspora speculative and science fiction writing. Discussions around the 'rise' of science-fiction and fantasy have led to a push-back by writers and scholars who have suggested that this is not a new phenomenon in African literature. This collection focuses on the need to recalibrate ways of reading and categorising this grenre of African writing through critical examinations both of classics such as Kojo Laing's Woman of the Aeroplanes (1988) and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's oeuvre, as well as more recent fiction from writers including Nnedi Okorafor, Namwali Serpell and Masande Ntshanga."--Back cover.

Author : Thomas More
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547685586

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Utopia by Thomas More Pdf

Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.

Author : Ross Dealy
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487534493

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Before Utopia by Ross Dealy Pdf

Before Utopia demonstrates that Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) is not, as is widely accepted, a rhetorical play of spirit but is instead built from a particular philosophy. That philosophy is not Platonism, but classical Stoicism. Deeply disturbed in his youth by the conviction that he needed to decide between a worldly and a monastic path, Thomas More was transformed in 1504 by Erasmus’ De taedio Iesu and Enchiridion. As a consequence, he married in 1505 and wholeheartedly committed himself to worldly affairs. His Lucian (1506), written after working directly with Erasmus, adopts the Stoic mindset; Erasmus’ Praise of Folly (1511) shows from beginning to end the workings of More’s life-changing Stoic outlook. More’s Utopia then goes on to systematically illustrate the Stoic unitary two-dimensional frame of thought within an imaginary New World setting. Before Utopia is not just a book about Thomas More. It is a book about intellectual history and the movement of ideas from the ancient world to the Renaissance. Ross Dealy emphasizes the continuity between Erasmus and More in their religious and philosophical thought, and above all the decisive influence of Erasmus on More.

Author : Alex Zamalin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231547253

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Black Utopia by Alex Zamalin Pdf

Within the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted a transfigured world. Daring to speculate on a future beyond white supremacy, black utopian artists and thinkers offer powerful visions of ways of being that are built on radical concepts of justice and freedom. They imagine a new black citizen who would inhabit a world that soars above all existing notions of the possible. In Black Utopia, Alex Zamalin offers a groundbreaking examination of African American visions of social transformation and their counterutopian counterparts. Considering figures associated with racial separatism, postracialism, anticolonialism, Pan-Africanism, and Afrofuturism, he argues that the black utopian tradition continues to challenge American political thought and culture. Black Utopia spans black nationalist visions of an ideal Africa, the fiction of W. E. B. Du Bois, and Sun Ra’s cosmic mythology of alien abduction. Zamalin casts Samuel R. Delany and Octavia E. Butler as political theorists and reflects on the antiutopian challenges of George S. Schuyler and Richard Wright. Their thought proves that utopianism, rather than being politically immature or dangerous, can invigorate political imagination. Both an inspiring intellectual history and a critique of present power relations, this book suggests that, with democracy under siege across the globe, the black utopian tradition may be our best hope for combating injustice.