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Books on: utopian societies

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Communism in History and Theory: From Utopian Socialism to the Fall of the Soviet Union

Book by Donald F. Busky; Praeger, 2002

Subjects:

Communism--History, Communism--Soviet Union--History, Utopian Socialism--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

Busky examines utopian writings and communes from ancient times to the present, and critially explores Marxian philosophy and economics. In addition, he tells the story of the rise and fall of the Soviet Union.
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International Encyclopedia of Learned Societies and Academies

Book by Joseph C. Kiger; Greenwood Press, 1993

Subjects:

Associations, Institutions, Etc--Encyclopedias, Learned Institutions And Societies--Encyclopedias, Research Institutes--Encyclopedias

Collections: Education, Entire Library

This book provides historical sketches of the most significant learned societies and academies located outside the United States. Complementing Kiger's Research Institutions and Learned Societies, which covers the United States, this volume includes profiles, arranged alphabetically, on 100 ...
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This book provides historical sketches of the most significant learned societies and academies located outside the United States. Complementing Kiger's Research Institutions and Learned Societies, which covers the United States, this volume includes profiles, arranged alphabetically, on 100 societies located in fifty countries. Each profile provides comprehensive, uniform, up-to-date information on both the history and current operations of the subject society. Entries conclude with sources of additional information. Appendices provide chronologies, genealogies, and topical listings. The work is fully indexed.
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Narrating Utopia: Ideology, Gender, Form in Utopian Literature

Book by Chris Ferns; Liverpool University Press, 1999

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Utopian societies exhibit a variety of ways of organizing the financial, political and emotional relationships between people. For all this diversity, however, one thing that exhibits far less variation is the story, the framing narrative that accounts for how the narrator reaches the more perfect ...
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Utopian societies exhibit a variety of ways of organizing the financial, political and emotional relationships between people. For all this diversity, however, one thing that exhibits far less variation is the story, the framing narrative that accounts for how the narrator reaches the more perfect society and obtains the opportunity to witness its distinctive excellences. Narrating Utopia is about that story, the curious hybrid of the traveler�2s tale and the classical dialogue that emerges in the Renaissance, but whose outlines remain clearly apparent even in some of the most recent utopian writing. "�5 a well-written and worthy addition to the filed of utopian studies."--SFRA Review
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Utopian Imagination and Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Book by Christine Rees; Longman, 1996

Subjects:

English Fiction--18th Century--History And Criticism, Fantasy Fiction, English--History And Criticism, Imagination, Utopias In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This book combines 2 major areas of interest, interpreting some of the most fascinating & innovative fictions of the period & locating them in a continuing tradition of utopian writing which stretches back through the Renaissance to the Ancient World.
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Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s: Joanna Russ & Dorothy Bryant

Book by Tatiana Teslenko; Routledge, 2003

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This work presents an exploration of the reinvented utopia that provided second-wave feminists of the 1970s with a conceptual space to articulate the politics of change. Tatiana Teslenko argues that utopian fiction of this decade offered a means of validating the personal as the political, and of ...
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This work presents an exploration of the reinvented utopia that provided second-wave feminists of the 1970s with a conceptual space to articulate the politics of change. Tatiana Teslenko argues that utopian fiction of this decade offered a means of validating the personal as the political, and of criticizing the patriarchical social order. In her examination of two novels of the 70s - Dorothy Bryant's The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You and Joanna Russ's The Female Man - Teslenko provides a comprehensive account of the generic strategy of feminist utopian fiction. Feminist utopias, according to Teslenko, describe a better time/place for women while working with the linguistic and generic tools of patriarchy. These fictions attempt to transgress social codes, to refigure patriarchal tropes, and to explode genre-setting rules through the use of fragmentation, ambiguity, multiplicity and openness. This book demonstrates feminists' attempts through fiction to envision a new political order. Teslenko takes a thorough look at a reworked 'good place that is no place' that elaborates a site of gendered opposition.
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Journal Articles on: utopian societies

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Olaf Stapledon: Utopia and Worship *

Journal article by Vincent Geoghegan; Utopian Studies, Vol. 16, 2005

Subjects:

Stapledon, Olaf--Criticism and interpretation, Utopian literature--Criticism and interpretation, Utopias in literature--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...First Men there are at least two recognisably utopian societies. The first is that created by the "fifth...plumbing of the depths enhanced the need for the utopian; time and again in his fiction societies collapse from great heights, and with infinite...
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Utopia and the Problem of Race: Accounting for the Remainder in the Imagination of the 1970s Utopian Subject

Journal article by Edward K. Chan; Utopian Studies, Vol. 17, 2006

Subjects:

Racism--Analysis, Racism--History, Racism--Social aspects, Utopian literature--Criticism and interpretation, Utopias in literature--Criticism and interpretation, Utopias--Analysis

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...categories separate, there is also good reason why Moylan includes Triton in his category of the critical utopia: The utopian societies imaged in critical utopias ultimately refer to something other than a...
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Qian Ma. Feminist Utopian Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Chinese and English Fiction: A Cross Cultural Comparison. Burlington

Journal article by Qingyun Wu; Utopian Studies, Vol. 18, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Feminist Utopian Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Chinese and English Fiction: A Cross Cultural Comparison. Burlington (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...long novels 120 chapters) and explores the feminist ideals embodied in their representations of exclusively female utopian societies in contrast to the male universe. Ma miraculously discovers commonalities between the texts. Both offer a feminist...
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Green Utopias: Beyond Apocalypse, Progress, and Pastoral

Journal article by Lisa Garforth; Utopian Studies, Vol. 16, 2005

Subjects:

Always Coming Home (Novel)--Environmental aspects, Environmental movement--Forecasts and trends, Environmental movement--Models, Environmentalism--Forecasts and trends, Environmentalism--Models, Le Guin, Ursula K.--Criticism and interpretation, Pacific Edge (Novel)--Environmental aspects, Robinson, Kim Stanley--Criticism and interpretation, Utopian literature--Environmental aspects, Utopias in literature--Environmental aspects

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...life for human societies. This article focuses on these utopian attempts to...analysis of green utopianism. As I have outlined...expansion, and ideal societies conceived in...reconstruction of human societies relationships...assumed in much utopian thought, and...
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Laurence Davis and Peter Stillman, Eds. the New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. le Guin's the Dispossessed

Journal article by Naomi Jacobs; Utopian Studies, Vol. 17, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...106) found in scarcity-based utopian visions such as her own representation...similarities between the two societies challenges me to rethink any...Guin is trying to place the utopian horizon not on Anarres but...reconsideration of a major work of utopian fiction, and for bringing together...

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Magazine Articles on: utopian societies

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Five and a Half Utopias: Despite Its Dismal Record, the Utopian Impulse Is by No Means Extinct. an Eminent Physicist Looks at Several of the Guises in Which Utopian Thinking Is Likely to Appear ..

Magazine article by Steven Weinberg; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, January 2000

Subjects:

Philosophy, Social sciences, Utopias

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...fiction; it was the vision of future societies that, for better or worse, would be radically...This led me on from science fiction to utopian literature, to Platos Republic, Thomas...hundred years ago) seem captivated by utopian dreams. Here, for instance, is Colonel...
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Five and a Half Utopias : Despite Its Dismal Record, the Utopian Impulse Is by No Means Extinct. an Eminent Physicist Looks at Several of the Guises in Which Utopian Thinking Is Likely to Appear during the Century Ahead-And at the Perils That Lurk Behind Each One

Magazine article by Steven Weinberg; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, January 2000

Subjects:

Paradise--Political aspects, Utopias--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...fiction; it was the vision of future societies that, for better or worse, would be radically...This led me on from science fiction to utopian literature, to Platos Republic, Thomas...hundred years ago) seem captivated by utopian dreams. Here, for instance, is Colonel...
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Toward a Practical Utopianism: Utopian Thinking Needs to Be Rescued from Fantasy and Fanaticism; It Must Embrace Science but Disclaim Moral Relativism

Magazine article by Tsvi Bisk; The Futurist, Vol. 36, May 2002

Subjects:

Pluralism--Analysis, Relativism--Social aspects, Utopias--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...temptation that has doomed utopian experiments in the past...have more successful lives. Societies and cultures that encourage...Neither individuals nor societies can function efficiently and...This is the task of Neo-Utopianism; not a blueprint, but a vision...
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New Thinking on Social Betterment: "Utopia" Is Now Associated with Wild Dreamers and Authoritarian Leaders. It's Time to Reexamine Utopian Thinking in the Context of Efforts to Envision and Promote a Better Future

Magazine article by Michael Marien; The Futurist, Vol. 36, March 2002

Subjects:

Sociology--Analysis, Utopias--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...and upgrade the process of creating improved, if not ideal, societies of the twenty-first century. Our survival may depend on it...E-mail mmarien@syr.edu. This article draws from his chapter in Utopian Thinking in Sociology: Creating the Good Society. Syllabi and...
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From Domination to Partnership: Reclaiming Our Future

Magazine article by Riane Eisler; The Humanist, Vol. 56, September 1996

Subjects:

Cooperatives (Associations)--History, Partnership--Social aspects, Partnerships--Social aspects, Sex role--History, Sex roles--History, Social evolution--History, Social history--Analysis, Women in cooperative societies--History, Women--History

Collections: Entire Library

...Chinese history. They found evidence of prehistoric partnership societies there. My book on this subject, The Chalice and the Blade...change them. But we have been told for so long that it is utopian, impossible, to create something better--and this even though...

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Newspaper Articles on: utopian societies

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Utopian Planners Are Always Wrong

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 18, 2006

Subjects:

World Bank

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Seekers. The authors rogues gallery of utopian Planners includes James Wolfensohn (former...reason for underdevelopment in traditional societies, especially in sub-Sahara Africa, is...mandate to attempt to transform other societies in our own image. We must recognize that...
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UTOPIAN DELUSIONS; How Abstract Theory Dangerously Distorts Reality

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 13, 2005

Subjects:

Conquest, Robert

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...shortcut to perfection, but Mr. Conquest also warns that even non-utopian theories like systems analysis or rational choice models sometimes...detestation for many of the traditions of the West and their own societies. Mr. Conquest highlights the consequences their arguments had...
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Being Welsh Is a Chance to Be Different -- and a Bit Utopian

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), October 25, 2007

Subjects:

British Broadcasting Corp., Broadcasting industry

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...to Be Different -- and a Bit Utopian. Byline: By Tomos Livingstone...Castells tells the producers that societies like Wales are making their...institutions that have constructed our societies in the last century are completely...yourselves. "Its a little bit utopian, but thats where we are." But...
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State of Fantasy

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 30, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...plausible limits. It championed a utopian agenda to free the planet...fears most is human freedom-societies where men and women make their...East from autocratic to free societies, an objective evocative of...Middle East to build free societies and share in the rights of...
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Universal Values and Lasting Peace

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, February 16, 2005

Subjects:

United Nations

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...men and women of moral courage in our societies to mediate the problem of terrorism and...will perhaps deride our efforts as too utopian. But peace is a cause that has been...of human hearts. In our conflicted societies, we must help open the eyes of peoples...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: utopian societies

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Marxism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...capitalism, the improved condition of workers in industrial societies, and the recent demise of the Communist bloc in Eastern Europe...Ethiopia, Benin, Angola, Kenya, and Senegal. In less stable societies Marxisms combination of materialist analysis with a militant...
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Communism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...variety of protest theories. Already what is generally known as utopian communism had been well launched by the comte de Saint-Simon...revival of Babouvism in secret French and Italian revolutionary societies, intent on overthrowing the established governments and on...

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