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Books on: utopian society

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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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The Utopian Thought of Restif de la Bretonne

Book by Mark Poster; New York University Press, 1971

Subjects:

Literature And Society--France--History--18th Century, Restif De La Bretonne--1734-1806--Political And Social Views, Social Problems In Literature, Utopias In Literature

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

...that he envisioned man in his utopian society in Australia as an hermaphrodite...involuntary, like hunger. 26 A utopian society based on love was therefore...mate that society provides. Utopian society cannot toler...
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Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England

Book by Robert Appelbaum; Cambridge University Press, 2002

Subjects:

English Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism, Literature And Society, Politics In Literature, Utopias In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Appelbaum surveys literature from 1603 to the 1660s and shows how its ideal politics were engaged in the reality of political and social struggle. He also shows how self-defeating the exercise could be. In an era of political and religious conflict, writers asserted themselves as the authors of ...
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Appelbaum surveys literature from 1603 to the 1660s and shows how its ideal politics were engaged in the reality of political and social struggle. He also shows how self-defeating the exercise could be. In an era of political and religious conflict, writers asserted themselves as the authors of social and political ideals. But they also constructed systems in which the assertion of utopian mastery would have no place, and an ideal politics could no longer be imagined. This study will interest political and cultural historians as well as literary critics.
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The Post-Utopian Imagination: American Culture in the Long 1950s

Book by M. Keith Booker; Greenwood Press, 2002

Subjects:

American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Cold War In Literature, Dystopias In Literature, Literature And Society--United States--History--20th Century, Motion Pictures--United States--History, Political Fiction, American--History And Criticism, Politics And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Popular Culture--United States--History--20th Century, Realism In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...of European society from feudalism...the loss of utopian energy in this...ultimately anti-utopian, because the...transformation of society but merely reinforces...sweeping American society toward a brave new utopian postwar world...
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Modern Art and Society: An Anthology of Social and Multicultural Readings

Book by Maurice Berger; Icon Editions, 1994

Subjects:

Art And Society--History--19th Century, Art And Society--History--20th Century, Art, Modern--19th Century, Art, Modern--20th Century, Discrimination, Minorities In Art, Multiculturalism

Collections: Entire Library

...appear to be solely visionary, utopian, and fanciful. The recent...and decomposition of civil society--of shattered families, neighborhoods...general, toward history and society; it is at one and the same...Nineteenth-Century Art and Society New York: Harper Row...

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Journal Articles on: utopian society

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David Shafer. the Paris Commune: French Politics, Culture, and Society at the Crossroads of the Revolutionary Tradition and Revolutionary Socialism

Journal article by G.A. Rosso; Utopian Studies, Vol. 17, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Paris Commune: French Politics, Culture, and Society at the Crossroads of the Revolutionary Tradition and Revolutionary Socialism (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...Politics, Culture, and Society at the Crossroads...socialism, anarchism, utopian socialism all found...ultimate expression of utopian aspirations for...regeneration of society" (121). It is the...for the return of utopian vision, which keeps...of an alternative society alive. In his "Postscript...
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Eugenio Battisti Awards

Journal article; Utopian Studies, Vol. 13, 2002

Subjects:

Eugenio Battisti Award, Society for Utopian Studies--Achievements and awards

Collections: Entire Library

Eugenio Battisti Awards. EACH YEAR the Society for Utopian Studies presents the Eugenio Battisti Award to the...in Italy. The Award is funded by donations to the Society for Utopian Studies by its members and has been generously supported...
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A Utopia of "Spheres and Sympathies": Science and Society in the Blithedale Romance and at Brook Farm

Journal article by Craig White; Utopian Studies, 1998

Subjects:

Hawthorne, Nathaniel--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Blithedale Romance (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Utopias in literature--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...itself" (14), and "Utopian orders" for Michael...of the cosmos" to society (74). This premise...claimed that in utopian society, "every chord in...macrocosm. Fouriers "utopian microcosm, if only...England Fourier Society in 1844 (Haraszti...
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"Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World." the New York Public Library

Journal article by Peter Fitting; Utopian Studies, Vol. 12, 2001

Subjects:

Exhibitions--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Utopias in art--Exhibitions, Utopias in literature--Exhibitions

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...our usual ideas of the utopian tradition in Western society. The catalogue begins...the specificity of the utopian society in the movement towards...individual-as-subject." Rather than a utopian transformation of society, the problem which interests...
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Homer's Eutopolis: Epic Journeys and the Search for an Ideal Society *

Journal article by Annette Lucia Giescke; Utopian Studies, Vol. 14, 2003

Collections: Entire Library

...are fundamentally utopian in outlook? On...the dream of a society for a better life...Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies in Orlando...Lyman Tower. "Utopian Traditions: Themes...Search for the Ideal Society in the Western...

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Magazine Articles on: utopian society

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Arts, Crafts & Socialism: Sheila Rowbotham Introduces the 'Hands-On' Utopian, C.R. Ashbee, and the Guild of Handicraft He Established in 1888, Shedding Light on Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Arts and Crafts Ideas about Work, Consumption and Society

Magazine article by Sheila Rowbotham; History Today, Vol. 59, February 2008

Subjects:

Arts organizations--History, Ashbee, Charles Robert--Social aspects, Designers--Social aspects, Social movements--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Introduces the Hands-On Utopian, C.R. Ashbee, and the...Work, Consumption and Society. by Sheila Rowbotham...aiming to transform society in the 1880s and early...Crafts was marked by the utopian hopes of the era. Thoughtful...paternalistic, his conservative utopianism with its imaginary past...
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The Utopian Nightmare: This Year, Economists, Politicians, and Rock Stars in Rich Countries Have Pleaded for Debt Relief and Aid for the World's Poorest Countries. It Certainly Sounds like the Right Thing to Do. but Utopian Dreams of Alleviating Poverty Overlook Some Hard Facts. by Promising So Much, Rich-World Activists Prolong the True Nightmare of Poverty

Magazine article by William Easterly; Foreign Policy, September 2005

Subjects:

Developing countries--Economic aspects, Utopian communities--Economic aspects, Utopias--Economic aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...efforts are futile. Instead of setting utopian goals such as ending world poverty, global...financed "big push" will not generate society-wide development, are things hopeless...bluff and refuse to let them get away with utopian dreams as a substitute for the hard slogging...
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Experimental Americans: Celo and Utopian Community in the Twentieth Century

Magazine article by Christopher H. Evans; The Christian Century, Vol. 119, December 4, 2002

Subjects:

Experimental Americans: Celo and Utopian Community in the Twentieth Century (Book)

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...them, 20th-century America society was sterile and impersonal...unlike overtly religious utopian experiments, like the House...world a model of improved society and culture." Hicks argues that American utopian experimentation often supports...
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The Wars of the Poppies; Leslie Marchant Sees the Opium Wars as a Philosophical Clash between Two Cultures and Two Notions of Government and Society

Magazine article by Leslie Marchant; History Today, Vol. 52, May 2002

Subjects:

China--Opium War, 1840-1842, International trade regulation--Political aspects, Opium trade--Political aspects, United Kingdom--Relations with China, War and society--Analysis

Collections: Philosophy, History, Entire Library

...wealth for all nations, and the utopian idea that this would produce...that trade could elevate human society. Merchants in Confucian China...ranked with the lower levels of society, self-seekers who put material...that the development of human society depended on Man, and that divine...
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Popper's Return Engagement: The Open Society in an Era of Globalization

Magazine article by Neil Mcinnes; The National Interest, Spring 2002

Subjects:

Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Communist countries--Social aspects, Globalization--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Politics and culture--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Popper, Karl--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Open Society and its Enemies (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Popperians, for they had abandoned "utopian social engineering" for "what...what Popper calls the closed society, lest some of the leaderships...proposed "piecemeal" rather than "utopian" engineering changes nothing...just engineering, and the open society will never be just a laboratory...

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Newspaper Articles on: utopian society

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Shaker Village Preserves Heritage of Utopian Society

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 11, 2001

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

...Shaker Village Preserves Heritage of Utopian Society. Byline: Mike Michaelson...work and worship. The United Society of Believers in Christs Second...largest and best-known communal society. They worked to create utopia...
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Utopian Legacy Remains in Aptly Named New Harmony, Ind

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 12, 2006

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

...history includes two bold experiments in utopian living. The first was initiated in 1814...and cleanliness. Members of the Harmonie Society were industrious, marketing a wide range...Dissent became so intense that in 1825 the society sold the community lock, stock and barrel...
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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

...different, because it will be yourselves. "Its a little bit utopian, but thats where we are." But he points to some problems with...30 years we will see the transformation in the nature of our society. "I think this is such a slow process; in language planning...
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Big Dreams Hopes of Utopian Planners Make for Entertaining Show

Newspaper article by Jack Helbig; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 12, 2007

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

...of the oddball fact that Nauvoo was host to not one but two utopian communities. Designed and built by the Mormons, Nauvoo was...Temple. Several years after the Mormons fled west, another society of dreamers moved into the abandoned Nauvoo to try to create...
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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...Snow and Simone de Beauvoir who spread misperceptions through society. Snow denied the political aspects of Soviet literature, insisting...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: utopian society

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Harrington, James

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

HARRINGTON, JAMES 1611 77, English political writer. His Commonwealth of Oceana (1656) pictured a utopian society in which political authority rested entirely with the landed gentry. Harrington advocated definite agrarian reforms, however, in...
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Campanella, Tommaso

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...representation of Pope Urban VIII. His best-known work is Civitas solis (1623, tr. The City of the Sun ), an account of a utopian society that closely follows the pattern of Platos Republic. Although he retained much of scholasticism and insisted on...
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Utopia

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...where the evils of society, such as poverty...the influence of utopian writings has generally...pre-19th-century utopian writings are Francois...belief that an ideal society a Golden Age had...days of European society before the development...of visionary or utopian socialism. The end...
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Cabet, Etienne

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...ETIENNE atyen kaba , 1788 1856, French utopian socialist. He was elected to the chamber...Voyage en Icarie (1840) depicted an ideal society in which an elected government controlled...Christ (1846). See C. H. Johnson, Utopian Communism in France: Cabet and the Icarians...
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Marxism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...as scientific (as opposed to utopian) socialism. Marxism has had...premise that the history of society is the inexorable "history...economically productive forces of society; when it became outmoded it...dynamic process a classless society would eventually emerge. In...

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