The Utopia Reader

Claeys, Gregory [Editor]; Sargent, Lyman Tower [Editor];

ISBN 10: 0814715710 / ISBN 13: 9780814715710

Editore: NYU Press, 1999

Codice articolo 0814715710-4-24306614

Riassunto:

Utopian literature has given voice to the hopes and fears of the human race from its earliest days to the present. The only single-volume anthology of its kind, The Utopia Reader encompasses the entire spectrum and history of utopian writing-from the Old Testament and Plato's Republic, to Sir Thomas More's Utopia and George Orwell's twentieth century dystopia, Nineteen Eighty-Four, through to the present day.

The editors of this definitive collection demonstrate the various ways in which utopias have been used throughout history as veiled criticism of existing conditions and how peoples excluded from the dominant discourse-such as women and minorities-have used the form to imagine empowering alternatives to present circumstances.

An engaging tour through the dissident, polemic, and satirical tradition of utopian writing, The Utopia Reader ultimately provides a telling portrait of civilization's persistent need to imagine and construct ideal societies.

Informazioni sull'autore:

Lyman Tower Sargent, Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, is author and editor of numerous books including Extremism in America and Political Thought in the United States (also available from NYU Press).

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Titolo: The Utopia Reader
Casa editrice: NYU Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1999
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Fair