Utopia and reform in the Enlightenment
by Venturi, F.
fromGeorge Macaulay Trevelyan lectures
In this detailed study of the republican tradition in the development of the Enlightenment, the central problem of utopia and reform is crystallized in a discussion of the right to punish. Describing the political situation in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, …
In this detailed study of the republican tradition in the development of the Enlightenment, the central problem of utopia and reform is crystallized in a discussion of the right to punish. Describing the political situation in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, …
The Old Testament Book of Chronicles is something of a scholarly conundrum, as no consensus has yet emerged about the authorship, date, genre, or even the purpose of the work. Schweitzer employs utopian literary theory to offer a holistic approach to the coherence of this text.
La crisi dell'utopia: Aristofane contro Platone
In three parts, Jameson presents the postmodern problem of Utopia, attempting to diagnose the cultural present and to open a perspective on the future of a world that is all but impossible to predict with any certainty - "a telling of the future," as Jameson calls it, "with an i…