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The A to Z of Utopianism (Paperback)
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The A to Z of Utopianism (Paperback)
Series: The A to Z Guide Series
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This reference contains more than 600 cross-referenced dictionary
entries on utopian thought and experimentation that span the
centuries from ancient times to the present. The text not only
covers utopian communities worldwide, but also its ideas from the
well known such as those expounded in Thomas More's Utopia and the
ideas of philosophers and reformers from ancient times, the Middle
Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and from notable
20th-century figures. Included are the descriptions of utopian
experiments attempted in the United Sates, like those of the
Shakers, Oneida, Robert Owen, and the Fourierists, and elsewhere
throughout the world from Europe to Australia, Latin America, and
the Far East. Major utopian literary works and their literary
counterparts and dystopian novels are also profiled because these
have fueled the fires of time-honored arguments about the
feasibility of creating a perfect society. From the early
theoreticians and thinkers who proposed republican, democratic, and
authoritarian innovations; to those who sought equality of classes,
races, and genders; to those who insisted on hierarchy under a
supreme leader, or god; and to those who had more practical
economic, social, and ethical plans, this reference enables the
reader to explore the Western mind's desire to improve the world
and the lives of the people within it as utopianism has persisted
over the centuries.
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