Utopian Thought in the Western World / / Frank E. Manuel, Fritzie P. Manuel.

• VerfasserIn: Manuel, Frank E.,; Manuel, Fritzie P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (906 p.)

Since 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in publishing essential American writings in authoritative editions. Jacob Riis's pioneering work of photojournalism takes its title from Rabelais's Pantagruel: "One half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth; considering that no one has yet written of that Country." An anatomy of New York City's slums in the 1880s, it vividly brought home to its first readers through the powerful combination of text and images the squalid living conditions of "the other half," who might well have inhabited another country. The book pricked the conscience of its readers and raised the tenement into a symbol of intransigent social difference. As Alan Trachtenberg makes clear in his introduction, it is a book that still speaks powerfully to us today of social injustice. Except for the modernization of spelling and punctuation, the John Harvard Library edition of How the Other Half Lives reproduces the text of the first published book version of November 1890. For this edition, prints have been made from Riis's original photographs now in the archives of the Museum of the City of New York. Endnotes aid the contemporary reader.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION. The Utopian Propensity -- PART I. The Ancient and Medieval Wellsprings -- 1. Paradise and the Millennium -- 2. The Golden Age of Kronos -- 3. The Great Transmission -- PART II. The Birth of Utopia -- 4. The Passion of Thomas More -- 5. A Città Felice for Architects and Philosophers -- 6. Heaven on Earth for the Common Man -- PART III. Flowering and Death of the Christian Utopia -- 7. Pansophia: A Dream of Science -- 8. Bruno, the Magus of Nola -- 9. Bacon, Trumpeter of New Atlantis IO. Campanella's City of the Sun -- 10. Campanella's City of the Sun -- 11. Andreae, Pastor of Christianopolis -- 12. Comenius and His Disciples -- 13. Topsy-Turvy in the English Civil War -- 14. The Sun King and His Enemies -- I 5. Leibniz: The Swan Song of the Christian Republic -- PART IV. Eupsychias of the Enlightenment -- 16. The Philosophes's Dilemma -- 17. The Monde Idéal of Jean-Jacques -- 18. Freedom from the Wheel -- 19. Turgot on the Future of Mind -- 20. Condorcet: Progression to Elysium -- 21. Kant: Beyond Animality -- PART V. A Revolutionary Diptych -- 22. New Faces of Love -- 23. Equality or Death -- PART VI. The Union of Labor and Love -- 24. The Battle of the Systems -- 25. Saint-Simon: The Pear Is Ripe -- 26. Children of Saint-Simon: The Triumph of Love -- 27. Fourier: The Burgeoning of Instinct -- 28. Owen's New Moral World -- PART VII. Marx and Counter-Marx -- 29. Marx and Engels in the Landscape of Utopia -- 30. Comte, High Priest of the Positivist Church -- 31. Anarchy and the Heroic Proletariat -- PART VIII. The Twilight of Utopia -- 32. Utopia Victoriana -- 33. Darwinism, the Ambiguous Intruder -- 34. Freudo-Marxism, a Hybrid for the Times -- EPILOGUE. The Utopian Prospect -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index