Introduction mark hillegas (5 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Good.

Paperback. Condizione: As New.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 5th or later Edition. The book has the previous owner's name and date in pen on the first page and pencil note markings on a couple of pages. The cover has an inch long crease repaired with tape on the front bottom right corner edge as well as some surface wear.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good paperback with clean pages. Bookplate inside front cover.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. H. G. Wells meant "A Modern Utopia" to reflect his idea of what an ideal future state might look like. There is racial and sexual equality, but beyond that , from my perspective, there is much in the novel that conjures doubt as to the actual 'utopian reality' of the world Wells envisages. Such a closely structured and ordered "Samurai" culture as Wells describes, seems a bit too much order and not enough freedom — so that, in my opinion, A Modern Utopia is actually A Modern Dystopia — but maybe I am nitpicking. The novel was very influential on the thinking of a generation of young intellectuals. Here is the blurb on the back cover; "A MODERN UTOPIA is one of the first important blueprints for the modern welfare state and an early major statement of Well's idea of the World State (only an entire world could facilitate such an endeavor, said Wells). The idea of the World State is perhaps his greatest contribution to the intellectual history of the Twentieth Century. In this 'quintessential utopia', as Lewis Mumford calls it, Wells 'sums up and clarifies the utopias of the past, and brings them into contact with the world of the present.' This Bison Books edition, with an introduction by Mark R. Hillegas, brings back into print a work that has stimulated three generations of thinkers. TITLE : A Modern Utopia AUTHOR : H. G. Wells INTRODUCTION : Mark R. Hillegas IMPRINT Bison books (University of Nebraska) PLACE : Lincoln, Nebraska DATE : Undated EDITION : 9th Bison Book printing after the initial 1967 printing DETAILS : Trade paperback; Contains an Introduction and a brief Bibliography; xxvi + 393 pages; pictorial wraps, perfect-bound (paper covers, glued) CONDITION -- NEAR FINE -- with near-negligible wear (slight bumps to cover corner tips) Attractive.…