Utopias of the British Enlightenment (Hardcover)

This is a major collection of eighteenth-century British utopias. Seven tracts, spanning the century, show how the image of the ideal society was used as a form of social criticism, and particularly as a means of focussing on ideas of progress and commercial development. Radical and republican thinking about property ownership, social equality, and commerce and luxury - of particular relevance to the critique of 'corruption' in this period - coexists with nostalgic and conservative notions of the ideal hierarchical community. The introduction, which examines the relationship of these tracts to the political thought of the period, shows how issues and developments of key importance, from the debate surrounding the French Revolution to the origins of Romanticism and early socialism, are illuminated by an understanding of the utopian tradition.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Release date:	July 1994
First published:	1994
Editors:	Gregory Claeys
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	350
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-43084-5
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Constitution, government & the state
LSN:	0-521-43084-4
Barcode:	9780521430845

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