Utopia : the search for the ideal society in the western world /
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New York :
New York Public Library : Oxford University Press,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface / Jean-Pierre Angremy and Paul LeClerc
- Utopia : space, time, history / Roland Schaer
- Utopian traditions : themes and variations / Lyman Tower Sargent
- Society as Utopia / Alain Touraine
- Ancient, biblical, and Medieval traditions / Danielle Lecoq and Roland Schaer
- Plato's Atlantis : the true utopia / Jean-Francois Pradeau
- Utopia and the new world, 1500-1700 / J.C. Davis
- City as an intellectual exercise / Ruth Eaton
- Mundus novus et renovatio mundi : messianic and utopian currents in the Indies of Castille / Alain Milhou
- Utopia and the Reformation / Frank Lestringant
- On the frontiers of utopia : satires and robinsonades / Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent
- Utopia and revolutions / Lyman Tower Sargent and Roland Schaer
- Fin-de-siecle landscapes against a background of ruins / Bronislaw Baczko
- Socialism and utopia / Gregory Claeys
- Utopia and nineteenth-century French literature / Laurent Portes
- Utopia and anti-utopia in the twentieth century / Krishan Kumar
- Communal movements in the twentieth century / Yaacov Oved
- Utopia and twentieth-century avant-gardes / Roland Schaer
- Architecture and urbanism : the faces of utopia / Ruth Eaton
- Utopia and totalitarianism / Frederic Rouvillois
- Utopia and the late twentieth century : a view from North America / Lyman Tower Sargent
- Utopia and the philosophical status of constructed space / Francoise Choay
- Symbolic collapse : utopia challenged by its representations / Laurent Gervereau.