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This Dictionary contains more than 600 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 such as 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. Includes: Persons,
plans, and attempts associated with utopianism, An introductory
essay, Chronology, An extensive bibliography, An appendix listing
the names and locations of utopian communities worldwide.
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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