Pt. 1. Contextualizing the individual and utopia -- pt. 2. Mind, body, sould, and the utopian individual -- pt. 3. Marginalized and alternative interpretations of the individual and utopia.
Interdisciplinary in scope and bringing together work from around the world, The Individual and Utopia enquires after the nature of the utopian as citizen, demonstrating the inherent value of making the individual central to utopian theorizing and highlighting the methodologies …
Interdisciplinary in scope and bringing together work from around the world, The Individual and Utopia enquires after the nature of the utopian as citizen, demonstrating the inherent value of making the individual central to utopian theorizing and highlighting the methodologies …
Central to the idea of a perfect society is the idea that communities must be strong and bound together with shared ideologies. However, while this may be true, rarely are the individuals that comprise a community given primacy of place as central to a strong communal theory. Th…
Chronicling one man's search to find the meaning of Utopia in our present-day world, "In Utopia" explores the history of utopian literature and thought in the narrative context of the real-life fruits of that history. b&w illustrations.
In History and Utopia, Cioran the monster writes of politics in its broadest sense, of history, and of the utopian dream. His views are, to say the least, provocative. In one essay he casts a scathing look at democracy, that "festival of mediocrity"; in another he turns his unco…
"The utopian alternatives writers imagine are affected by numerous variables, such as the historical circumstances in which they write, their gender and class background, not to mention psychological factors. These variables in turn give rise to a bewildering assortment of imagi…
The image of the future
by Polak, Fred
fromThe Jossey-Bass/Elsevier international series
Monograph presenting a theoretical framework for the projection of future western civilization and culture based on an understanding of the religions and philosophys of the past and its relationship to social change - comprises a condensed version of the 1955 Dutch edition. Refe…