Utopianism for a Dying Planet : : Life after Consumerism / / Gregory Claeys.
How the utopian tradition offers answers to today’s environmental crisesIn the face of Earth’s environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won’t save our planet. A more radical approach is required, one that involves profound changes in individual and collective behavior...
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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Towards a Theory of Utopian Sociability
- 1 Redefining Utopianism for a Post- consumer society
- 2 The Mythical Background: remembering original equality
- 3 Theories of Realised Utopianism
- Part II Utopian Sociability in Fiction and Practice
- 4 The Varieties of Utopian Practice
- 5 Luxury, Sociability, and Progress in Literary Projections of Utopia: from Thomas more to the eighteenth century
- 6 The Triumph of Unsocial Sociability? luxury in the eighteenth century
- Part III Luxury and Sociability in Later Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Utopianism
- 7 The Later Eighteenth Century and the French Revolution
- 8 Simplicity and Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Utopianism
- Part IV Modern Consumerism and Its Opponents
- 9 Twentieth-Century Consumerism and the Utopian Response
- 10 Counterculture and Consumerism: The 1960s
- 11 Life after Consumerism: Utopianism in the age of sufficiency
- Conclusion: The Great Change: creating enhanced simplicity
- Afterword: Covid-19 and Sociability
- Bibliography of Works Cited
- Index
- A NOTE ON THE TYPE