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Utopian Moments

J. C. Davis, Miguel Ángel Ramiro Avilés · 2012

83,604 words · about 5 h 51 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: CC BY-NC 3.0 · repository export licence (OAPEN) · Davis, J. C., Avilés, Miguel Ángel Ramiro (2012), Utopian Moments, Bloomsbury Academic - licensed CC BY-NC 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/)

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Authors
J. C. Davis, Miguel Ángel Ramiro Avilés
Language
English
Published
2012
Length
83,604 words · about 5 h 51 min
Sections
23 reader sections
Text
Digital text
Rights
CC BY-NC 3.0 · repository export licence (OAPEN)

 

Contents (23)
  1. Front matter about 2 min
  2. Contents about 1 min
  3. Index about 5 h 6 min
  4. Introduction under 1 min
  5. Chapter 1 Systemic Remedies for Systemic Ills: The Political Thought of More’s Utopia about 3 min
  6. Chapter 2 More’s Utopia: Colonialists, Refugees and the Nature of Sufficiency about 1 min
  7. Chapter 3 Goodbye to Utopia: Thomas More’s Utopian Conclusion about 1 min
  8. Chapter 4 So Close, So Far: The Puzzle of Antangil about 3 min
  9. Chapter 5 Microcosm, Macrocosm and ‘Practical Science’ in Andreae’s Christianopolis about 1 min
  10. Chapter 6 Tommaso Campanella, The City of the Sun and the Protective Celestial Bodies about 1 min
  11. Chapter 7 ‘A Dark Light’: Spectacle and Secrecy in Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis about 1 min
  12. Chapter 8 Gerrard Winstanley’s The Law Of Freedom: OONA“ about 4 min
  13. Chapter 10 An Island with Potential: Henry Neville’s The Isle Of Pines ioe} about 1 min
  14. Chapter 11 The Persian Moment in Denis Veiras’s History of the Sevarambians about 2 min
  15. Chapter 12 Nature and Utopia in Morelly’s Code De La Nature about 1 min
  16. Chapter 13 Sinapia, A Political Journey to the Antipodes of Spain un about 3 min
  17. Chapter 14 Condorcet’s Utopianism: Faith in Science and Reason about 3 min
  18. Chapter 15 Women’s Rights and Women’s Liberation in Charles Fourier’s nm ioe) 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 about 1 min
  19. Chapter 16 A Tale of Two Cities: Robert Owen and the Search for Utopia, 12 13 14 about 3 min
  20. Chapter 17 How to Change the World: Claude-Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon about 2 min
  21. Chapter 18 The Utopian Organization of Work in Icaria about 1 min
  22. Chapter 19 The Horror of Strangeness: Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward about 3 min
  23. Chapter 21 Utopian Journeying: Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed about 7 min
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Front matter

TEXTUAL MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT

Reading Utopian Texts

Edited by Miguel A. Ramiro Avilés & J. C. Davis

Contents

Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction

Systemic Remedies for Systemic Ills: The Political Thought of More’s Utopia by George M. Logan

More’s Utopia: Colonialists, Refugees and the Nature of Sufficiency by Susan Bruce

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