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Author : Giacinto Auriti
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781291217605
Author : Thomas More
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547685586
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 : Danny Dorling,Annika Koljonen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1788212150
What is it about Finland that makes the country so successful and seemingly such a great place to live? Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen explore what we might learn from Finnish success and what they might usefully learn from us.
Author : Mark R. Levin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781439173282
In his acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller, Mark R. Levin explores the psychology, motivations, and history of the utopian movement, its architects—the Founding Fathers, and its modern-day disciples—and how the individual and American society are being devoured by it. Levin asks, what is this utopian force that both allures a free people and destroys them? Levin digs deep into the past and draws astoundingly relevant parallels to contemporary America from Plato’s Republic, Thomas More’s Utopia, Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan, and Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto, as well as from the critical works of John Locke, Charles Montesquieu, Alexis de Tocqueville, and other philosophical pioneers who brilliantly diagnosed the nature of man and government. As Levin meticulously pursues his subject, the reader joins him in an enlightening and compelling journey. And in the end, Levin’s message is clear: the American republic is in great peril. The people must now choose between utopianism or liberty. President Ronald Reagan warned, “freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” Levin agrees, and with Ameritopia, delivers another modern political classic, an indispensable guide for America in our time and in the future.
Author : Erik Reece
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374710750
For Erik Reece, life, at last, was good: he was newly married, gainfully employed, living in a creekside cabin in his beloved Kentucky woods. It sounded, as he describes it, "like a country song with a happy ending." And yet he was still haunted by a sense that the world--or, more specifically, his country--could be better. He couldn't ignore his conviction that, in fact, the good ol' USA was in the midst of great social, environmental, and political crises--that for the first time in our history, we were being swept into a future that had no future. Where did we--here, in the land of Jeffersonian optimism and better tomorrows--go wrong? Rather than despair, Reece turned to those who had dared to imagine radically different futures for America. What followed was a giant road trip and research adventure through the sites of America's utopian communities, both historical and contemporary, known and unknown, successful and catastrophic. What he uncovered was not just a series of lost histories and broken visionaries but also a continuing and vital but hidden idealistic tradition in American intellectual history. Utopia Drive is an important and definitive reconstruction of that tradition. It is also, perhaps, a new framework to help us find a genuinely sustainable way forward. " ... an engaging exploration -- and example -- of the fruitful tunnel-visions of dreamers turned doers." - Publishers Weekly
Author : Richard Gerber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000734720
This book, originally published in 1955 and reissued in 1973, is a study of the flourishing of an ancient literary form which had only recently been recognized and systematically studied as a proper genre – utopian fiction. Beginning with the imaginary journeys of writers like H. G. Wells at the end of the nineteenth century, Professor Gerber traces the evolving themes and forms of the genre through their culmination in the sophisticated nightmares of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. It is a two-fold transformation: On the one hand, the optimism of social reformers whose visions of the future were nurtured by the theories of Darwin and the triumph of science and industry gradually gives way to the pessimism of moral philosophers alarmed at the power science and technology have put at the disposal of totalitarian rulers. On the other hand, the earlier writers’ dependence on framing and distancing devices for their stories and heavy emphasis on technical details give way to the subtlety of complex psychological novels whose artistry makes the reader a citizen of the tragic worlds depicted.
Author : Susan M. Matarese
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1558497706
An innovative look at the cultural roots of American foreign policy.
Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1789 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000518856
Routledge Library Editions: Utopias (6 volume set) contains titles, originally published between 1923 and 1982. It includes volumes focusing on Utopian fiction, both as a genre in its own right and also from a feminist perspective. In addition, there are sociological texts that examine the history of Utopian thought, from the writings of Plato and beyond, as well as specific examples of people who have tried to create Utopian communities.
Author : Gregory Claeys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521886659
Using a combination of historical and thematic approaches, this volume engages with the fascinating and complex genre of utopian literature.
Author : Frank Edward MANUEL,Fritzie Prigohzy Manuel,Frank Edward Manuel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 907 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674040564
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 : Ayesha Ratnayake
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798374752908
Join the journey to the planet's most impressive places - and crack the blueprint for a utopian world. If you've ever wondered what it would take to build a perfect world, you're not alone. A utopia full of happiness, health and abundance might sound like a pipe dream. But, if you look closely enough, the world is already full of utopias. The Utopia Playbook explores the countries that top the world's indices in all the metrics that matter. Tap the secrets of: Finland, which is the world's happiest country Hong Kong, which has the longest life expectancy Bhutan, which is carbon neutral Spain, which is the biggest organ donor France, which has the least food waste And dozens more countries that hold the keys to an ideal world Discover where people can safely leave their babies in strollers by the street and which nation has doubled its GDP - while halving its carbon emissions. Explore why the language you speak can make you more or less likely to save for retirement, how one country is creating a nicotine-free generation, and where drone technology is used to grow new forests. Together, we will explore the places of peak happiness, health and abundance - and catch a glimpse into how they came to be the way they are. The Utopia Playbook is for everyday citizens who dream of a better world. It is for current and future educators, activists, economists, policymakers, politicians and pressure groups. Because whether you are suffering in a failed country or curious about how much better things could be, you deserve to live in Utopia. Scroll up, hit the buy button and take your first step towards an ideal world.
Author : Robert Nozick
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : 9780631197805
Robert Nozicka s Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a powerful, philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our age ---- liberal, socialist and conservative.
Author : Lucy Sargisson,Lyman Tower Sargent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351921763
Utopia is, literally, the good place that is no place. Utopias reveal people's dreams and desires and they may gesture towards different and better ways of being. But they are rarely considered as physical, observable phenomena. In this book Sargisson and Sargent, both established writers on utopian theory, turn their attention to real-life utopian communities. The book is based on their fieldwork and extensive archival research in New Zealand, a country with a special place in the history of utopianism. A land of opportunity for settlers with dreams of a better life, New Zealand has, per capita, more intentional communities - groups of people who have chosen to live and sometimes work together for a common purpose - than any country in the world. Sargisson and Sargent draw on the experiences of more than fifty such communities, to offer the first academic survey of this form of living utopian experiment. In telling the story of the New Zealand experience, Living in Utopia provides both transferable lessons in community, cooperation and social change and a unique insight into the utopianism at the heart of politics, society, and everyday life.
Author : Jonathan Harris
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781405193016
THE UTOPIAN GLOBALISTS “Crossing continents, historical periods and cultural genres, Jonathan Harris skilfully traces the evolution of utopian ideals from early modernism to the spectacularised and biennialised (or banalised as some would say) contemporary art world of today.” Michael Asbury, University of the Arts, London The Utopian Globalists is the second in a trilogy of books by Jonathan Harris examining the contours, forces, materials and meanings of the global art world, along with its contexts of emergence since the early twentieth century. The first of the three studies, Globalization and Contemporary Art (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), anatomized the global art system through an extensive anthology of over 30 essays contextualized through multiple thematic introductions. The final book in the series, Contemporary Art in a Globalized World (forthcoming, Wiley-Blackwell), combines the historical and contemporary perspectives of the first and second books in an account focused on the ‘mediatizations’ shaping and representing contemporary art and its circuits of global production, dissemination and consumption. This innovative and revealing history examines artists whose work embodies notions of revolution and human social transformation. The clearly structured historical narrative takes the reader on a cultural odyssey that begins with Vladimir Tatlin’s constructivist model for a ‘Monument to the Third International’ (1919), a statement of utopian globalist intent, via Picasso’s 1940s commitment to Soviet communism and John and Yoko’s Montreal ‘Bedin’, to what the author calls the ‘late globalism’ of the Unilever Series at London’s Tate Modern. The book maps the ways artists and their work engaged with, and offered commentary on, modern spectacle in both capitalist and socialist modernism, throughout the eras of the Russian Revolution, the Cold War and the increasingly globalized world of the past 20 years. In doing so, Harris explores the idea that the utopian -globalist lineage in art remains torn between its yearning for freedom and a deepening identification with spectacle as a media commodity to be traded and consumed.
Author : Francisco Bethencourt
Publisher : Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Angolan literature
ISBN : 3034318715
This book studies the uses and effects of utopian visions on history, literature and culture of the Portuguese-speaking countries; topics include national identity, political strategies, missionary doctrine and literary figures from Camões to José Saramago.