The utopian dilemma in the Western political imagination /
In this volume, John Farrell shows that political utopias, societies with laws and customs designed to short-circuit the foibles of human nature for the benefit our collective existence, have a perennial opponent, the honor-based culture of aristocracy that dominated most of the world from ancient t...
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New York :
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : imagining a world without heroes
- The hero and the city : Homer to Diogenes
- Thomas More's imaginary kingdom
- Francis Bacon and the heroism of the age
- Jonathan Swift and utopian madness
- Voltaire's garden retreat
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the land of chimaeras
- Adam Smith and the utopia of commercial society
- Karl Marx and the heroic revolution
- Fyodor Dostoevsky and the ungrateful biped
- Edward Bellamy's invisible army
- William Morris and the taming of art
- H.G. Wells and the samurai
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the mothers' utopia
- Evgeny Zamyatin and the infinite revolutions
- Aldous Huxley and the rebels against happiness
- George Orwell's dystopian socialism
- B.F. Skinner's world without heroes
- Anthony Burgess and the return of the dandy.