Utopian moments : reading Utopian texts / / edited by Miguel A. Ramiro Aviles and J.C. Davis.

• Superior document: Textual moments in the history of political thought
• TeilnehmendeR: Ramiro Aviles, Miguel Angel.; Davis, J. C., M.A.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Textual moments in the history of political thought.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 174 p.)

'Utopian Moments' is a collection of short essays designed to guide readers to informed engagement with the key works of the modern western Utopian tradition. It offers a fresh and original perspective on Utopian writings and their interpretation.

Table of Contents

• 1. J.C. Davis and Miguel A. Ramiro Aviles, Introduction 2. George M. Logan, Thomas More's "Utopia" (tbc) 3. Susan Bruce, Colonialists, Refugees and the Nature of Sufficiency 4. J.C. Davis, Reading "Utopia" 5. Bronwen Price, 'A dark light': Spectacle and Secrecy in Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis" 6. Maurizio Cambi, Tommaso Campanella, the "City of Sun" and the guardian stars. 7. Edward Thompson, Johann Valentin's "Christianopolis" (tbc) 8. Nadia Minerva, So Close, So Far: the Puzzle of "Antangil" 9. Miguel Angel Ramiro Aviles, " Sinapia", a Political Journey to the Antipodes of Spain 10. John Christian Laursen and Cyrus Masroori, The Persian Moment in Denis Veiras's "History of the Sevarambians" 11.John Gurney, Gerrard Winstanley's "The Law of Freedom": Context and Continuity 12. J.C. Davis, de te Fabula narratur: "Oceana" and James Harrington's Narrative Constitutionalism 13. Gaby Mahlberg, An island with potential: Henry Neville's "The Isle of Pines" 14. K. Steven Vincent, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794) (tbc) 15. Claudio de Boni, Nature and Utopia in Morelly's "Code De La Nature" 16. David Leopold, The Utopian Organization of Work in Icaria 17. Gregory Claeys, A Tale of Two Cities: Robert Owen and the Search for Utopia, 1815-1817 18. Jonathan Beecher, Women's Rights and Women's Liberation and the 'Riddle' of Charles Fourier's "Theory of the Four Movements" 19. Neil McWilliam, How to Change the World: Claude-Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon 20. Matthew Beaumont, The Horror of Strangeness: Bellamy's Psychology of the Utopian Imagination in "Looking Backward" 21. Richard Nate, The incompatibility I could not resolve: Ambivalence in H.G. Wells's "A Modern Utopia" 22. Laurence Davis and Peter G. Stillman, Utopian Journeying: Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Dispossessed" 23. Lyman Tower Sargent, Conclusion