Utopian thought in the Western World /

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Synopsis: 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 th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Manuel, Frank E. (Frank Edward) (Autor), Manuel, Fritzie Prigohzy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1979.
Temas:
Utopias > History.
Utopies > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Communism & Socialism.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
Utopias
Geschichte
Utopie
Utopieën.
Utopias.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The utopian propensity
  • The ancient and medieval wellsprings: Paradise and the millennium. The golden age of Kronos. The great transmission
  • The birth of utopia: The passion of Thomas More. A città felice for architects and philosophers. Heaven on earth for the common man
  • Flowering and death of the Christian utopia: Pansophia : a dream of science. Bruno, the magus of Nola. Bacon, the trumpeter of New Atlantis. Campanella's city of the sun. Andreae, pastor of Christianopolis. Comenius and his disciples. Topsy-turvy in the English Civil War. The Sun King and his enemies. Leibniz : the swan song of the Christian republic
  • Eupsychias of the Enlightenment: The philosophes's dilemma. The Monde idéal of Jean-Jacques. Freedom from the wheel. Turgot on the future of the mind. Condorcet : progression to Elysium. Kant : beyond animality
  • A revolutionary diptych: New faces of love. Equality or death
  • The union of labor and love: The battle of the systems. Saint-Simon : the pear is ripe. Children of Saint-Simon : the triumph of love. Fourier : the burgeoning of instinct. Pwen's new moral world
  • Marx and counter-Marx: Marx and Engels in the landscape of utopia. Comte, the high priest of the positivist church. Anarchy and the heroic proletariat
  • The twighlight of utopia: Utopia Victoriana. Darwinism, the ambiguous intruder. Freudo-Marxism, a hybrid for the times
  • Epiloge: The utopian prospect.

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