Over five hundred years since it was named, utopia remains a vital concept for understanding and challenging the world(s) we inhabit, even in - or rather because of - the condition of 'post-utopianism' that supposedly permeates them. In Rethinking Utopia David M. Bell offers a d…
"This collection deals with utopias in the Greek and Roman worlds. Plato is the first and foremost name that comes to mind and, accordingly, 3 chapters (J. Annas; D. El Murr; A. Hazistavrou) are devoted to his various approaches to utopia in the Republic, Timaeus and Laws. But t…
"Offers new perspectives on modern Chinese political thought"-- Offers new perspectives on modern Chinese political thought. Focusing on four key Chinese intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century, Abolishing Boundaries offers new perspectives on modern Chinese po…
Ways to conceptualize utopianism : an introduction -- Cosmopolitanism and equality : Kang Youwei -- Aesthetics and transcendence : Cai Yuanpei -- Democracy and the community : Chen Duxiu -- Experimentalism, process, and progress : Hu Shi. "Offers new perspectives on modern Chin…
Focusing on four key Chinese intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century, Abolishing Boundaries offers new perspectives on modern Chinese political thought. These four intellectuals - Kang Youwei, Cai Yuanpei, Chen Duxiu, and Hu Shi - were deeply familiar with the C…