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

• TeilnehmendeR: Ramiro Avilés, Miguel Ángel.; Davis, J. C.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Within literature, history, politics, philosophy and theology, the interpretation of utopian ideals has evolved constantly. Juxtaposing historical views on utopian diagnoses, prescriptions and on the character and value of utopian thought with more modern interpretations, this volume explores how our ideal utopia has transformed over time. Challenging long-held interpretations, the contributors turn a fresh eye to canonical texts, and open them up to a twenty-first century audience. From Moore's Utopia to Le Guin's The Dispossessed , Utopian Moments puts forward a lively and accessible debate

Table of Contents

Cover; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Systemic Remedies for Systemic Ills: The Political Thought of More's Utopia; 2 More's Utopia: Colonialists, Refugees and the Nature of Sufficiency; 3 Goodbye to Utopia: Thomas More's Utopian Conclusion; 4 So Close, So Far: The Puzzle of Antangil; 5 Microcosm, Macrocosm and 'Practical Science' in Andreae's Christianopolis; 6 Tommaso Campanella, The City of the Sun and the Protective Celestial Bodies; 7 'A Dark Light': Spectacle and Secrecy in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis

8 Gerrard Winstanley's The Law of Freedom: Context and Continuity9 'De Te Fabula Narratur': Oceana and James Harrington's Narrative Constitutionalism; 10 An Island with Potential: Henry Neville's The Isle of Pines; 11 The Persian Moment in Denis Veiras's History of the Sevarambians; 12 Nature and Utopia in Morelly's Code De La Nature; 13 Sinapia, A Political Journey to the Antipodes of Spain; 14 Condorcet's Utopianism: Faith in Science and Reason; 15 Women's Rights and Women's Liberation in Charles Fourier's Early Writings

16 A Tale of Two Cities: Robert Owen and the Search for Utopia, 1815-1717 How to Change the World: Claude-Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon; 18 The Utopian Organization of Work in Icaria; 19 The Horror of Strangeness: Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward; 20 'The Incompatibility I Could Not Resolve': Ambivalence in H.G. Wells's A Modern Utopia; 21 Utopian Journeying: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed; Conclusion; Suggestions for Further Reading; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z