The Philosophy of Utopia
London: Portland, OR, 2001. Hardcover. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering; blue and white dj with black lettering, mylar cover; 265 pp. VG/VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Pages are otherwise very clean and clear.). Item #185031
ISBN: 9780714651538
"This collection of essays addresses the important function of utopianism in social and politicial philosophy and includes debate on what its future role will be in a period dominated by dystopian nightmare scenarios." - dust jacket. Contents: Introduction /; Barbara Goodwin --; 'Nothing is, but what is not': Utopias as Practical Political Philosophy /; Peter G. Stillman --; For Utopia: The (Limits of the) Utopian Function in Late Capitalist Society /; Ruth Levitas --; The Eternal Present of Utopianism /; Jose Eduardo dos Reis --; Isaiah Berlin, William Morris, and the Politics of Utopia /; Laurence Davis --; Utopianism and National Identity /; Lyman Tower Sargent --; The Romanian Utopia: The Role of the Intelligentsia in the Communist Implementation of a New Human Paradigm /; Brindusa Palade --; The Treatment of the 'Woman Question' in Radical Utopian Political Thought /; Filio Diamanti --; Green Utopias of Self and Other /; Lucy Sargisson --; The Illusion of Permanence: Work Motivation and Membership Turnover at Twin Oaks Community /; Hilke Kuhlmann --; Scientific Utopianism in Francis Bacon and H.G. Wells: From Salomon's House to The Open Conspiracy /; Richard Nate --; Biotechnology and Utopia /; Brian Stableford --; Religious Narrative, Post-Secularism and Utopia /; Vincent Geoghegan --; The Law-Based Utopia /; Miguel Angel Ramiro Aviles.
OCLC: 45276707
Price: $160.00