"How the utopian tradition offers answers to today's environmental crises. In the face of Earth's environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won't save our planet. A more radical approach is required, one that involves profound changes in individual…
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In the face of Earth's environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won't save our planet. A more radical approach is required, one that involves profound changes in individual and collective behavior. Utopianism for a Dying Planet examines the ways t…
"After Consumerism contends that the alarmingly likely prospect of catastrophic environmental breakdown cannot be solved by technological innovation alone, but requires substantial modifications in both individual and collective behaviour. The author argues that consumerism, and…
"How the utopian tradition offers answers to today's environmental crises. In the face of Earth's environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won't save our planet. A more radical approach is required, one that involves profound changes in individual…
"How the utopian tradition offers answers to today's environmental crises. In the face of Earth's environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won't save our planet. A more radical approach is required, one that involves profound changes in individual…
"In keeping with the inquisitive spirit of their times, two seventeenth-century writers envisioned their own philosophical and intellectual utopias. Tomasso Campanella, a Calabrian monk, published The City of the Sun in 1623, and Francis Bacon's New Atlantis appeared in 1627. Ca…
Campanella was a student of logic and physics; Bacon focused on politics and philosophy - but despite their authors' differences, both of these utopian visions reflect the spirit of 17th-century philosophy.
An illuminating history of Marx's thought and intellectual influence from a leading historian of socialism00Why was Marx so successful as a thinker? Did he have a system and if so, what does it consist of? How did Marxism develop in the twentieth century and what does it mean to…