| Author | : J. C. Davis |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 444 |
| Release | : 1983-07-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521275514 |
This text provides a major study for all those working in the fields of 16th- and 17th-century political and social thought.
| Author | : Roland Schaer |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780195141115 |
On April 4, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France and The New York Public Library will present a major exhibition, displaying more than 400 books, manuscripts, drawings, prints, maps, photographs, and other original material from both libraries. This work is the catalog for the American exhibition. Through stirring essays by Roland Schaer and other leading scholars on utopian thought, the book will wxplore the long tradition of thought and art that has envisioned the "perfect place,"moving from classical antiquity to the present. It is conveniently divided into four parts: I. The Classical and Judeo-Christian models for the Western Idea of Utopia; II. The Flowering of Utopian Imagination from Thomas Moore to the Enlightenment; III. Utopia in History; and IV. The Utopias and Dystopias of the 20th Century. Along with a dazzling selection of paintings, illuminations, and other items from the Bibliotheque Nationale's noted collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, The New York Public Library contributions include first or important editions of seminal works of utopian thought, political science, history, and fiction since the invention of printing. As well, The New York Public Library contributes beautiful illustrations from its collection of 16th century drawings of Theodore de Bry, posters from the Soviet Union and the 1939 World's Fair in New York, engravings from colonial times, and illuminationed manuscripts. Lavishly illustrated with many full color representations, this book will appeal to scholars and students of philosophy, history, and art, in addition to general readers curious about utopian thought.
| Author | : Thomas More |
| Publisher | : e-artnow |
| Total Pages | : 105 |
| Release | : 2019-04-08 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 8027303583 |
Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.
| Author | : Dr Chloë Houston |
| Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
| Total Pages | : 199 |
| Release | : 2014-07-28 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1472425057 |
A study of European utopias in context from the early years of Henry VIII’s reign to the Restoration, this book is the first comprehensive attempt since J. C. Davis’ Utopia and the Ideal Society (1981) to understand the societies projected by utopian literature from Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) to the political idealism and millenarianism of the mid-seventeenth century. Where Davis concentrated on understanding utopias historically, Renaissance Utopia also seeks to make sense of utopia as a literary form, offering both a new typology of utopia and a new history of European humanist utopianism. This book examines how the utopia was transformed from an intellectual exercise in philosophical interrogation to a serious means of imagining practical social reform. In doing so it argues that the relationship between Renaissance utopia and Renaissance dialogue is crucial; the utopian mode of discourse continued to make use of aspects of dialogue even when the dialogue form itself was in decline. Exploring the ways in which utopian texts assimilated dialogue, Renaissance Utopia complements recent work by historians and literary scholars on early modern communities by providing a thorough investigation of the issues informing a way of modelling a very particular community and literary mode - the utopia.
| Author | : J. C. Davis |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 427 |
| Release | : 1981 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
While great interest has been shown recently in the nature of utopian thought and its significance in western development, much of the discussion has been marked by imprecision and generality. This book opens with an attempt to give clarity, substance and precision to the definition of utopia by isolating its characteristics in contrast with those of other forms of ideal society. The value of these distinctions is shown in a detailed re-examination of the sixteenth-century European writers who developed the re-emergent form of utopia. As a whole, the book brings the discussion of utopian thought closer to the mainstream concerns of the history of political ideas, and provides a major study for all those working in the fields of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century political and social thought.
| Author | : J. C. Davis (M.A.) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 427 |
| Release | : 1981 |
| Genre | : Political science |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Giovanni R. F. Ferrari |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 38 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Political science |
| ISBN | : 0521839637 |
This book provides a fresh and comprehensive account of this outstanding work, which remains among the most frequently read works of Greek philosophy, indeed of Classical antiquity in general.
| Author | : William Maxwell McCord |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
| Total Pages | : 381 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Collective settlements |
| ISBN | : 9780393026412 |
Chronicles the development of Utopian societies, among them the Kibbutzes, communities of California, religious communities, and Denmark's welfare state, detailing their experiences in attempting to build a better world
| Author | : Rutger Bregman |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2017-03-14 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0316471909 |
Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe's leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today. "A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell." -- New York Times After working all day at jobs we often dislike, we buy things we don't need. Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian, reminds us it needn't be this way -- and in some places it isn't. Rutger Bregman's TED Talk about universal basic income seemed impossibly radical when he delivered it in 2014. A quarter of a million views later, the subject of that video is being seriously considered by leading economists and government leaders the world over. It's just one of the many utopian ideas that Bregman proves is possible today. Utopia for Realists is one of those rare books that takes you by surprise and challenges what you think can happen. From a Canadian city that once completely eradicated poverty, to Richard Nixon's near implementation of a basic income for millions of Americans, Bregman takes us on a journey through history, and beyond the traditional left-right divides, as he champions ideas whose time have come. Every progressive milestone of civilization -- from the end of slavery to the beginning of democracy -- was once considered a utopian fantasy. Bregman's book, both challenging and bracing, demonstrates that new utopian ideas, like the elimination of poverty and the creation of the fifteen-hour workweek, can become a reality in our lifetime. Being unrealistic and unreasonable can in fact make the impossible inevitable, and it is the only way to build the ideal world.
