Utopias ：A Brief History from Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities

Publication subTitle ：A Brief History from Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities

Author： Howard P. Segal  

Publisher： John Wiley & Sons Inc‎

Publication year： 2012

E-ISBN: 9781118234310

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781405183284

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781405183291

Subject： D091.6 Socialist Ideas History

Language： ENG

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Description

This brief history connects the past and present of utopian thought, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, right up to present day visions of cyberspace communities and paradise.

  • Explores the purpose of utopias, what they reveal about the societies who conceive them, and how utopias have changed over the centuries
  • Unique in including both non-Western and Western visions of utopia
  • Explores the many forms utopias have taken – prophecies and oratory, writings, political movements, world's fairs, physical communities – and also discusses high-tech and cyberspace visions for the first time
  • The first book to analyze the implicitly utopian dimensions of reform crusades like Technocracy of the 1930s and Modernization Theory of the 1950s, and the laptop classroom initiatives of recent years

Chapter

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1 The Nature of Utopias

2 The Variety of Utopias

3 The European Utopias and Utopians and Their Critics

4 The American Utopias and Utopians and Their Critics

5 Growing Expectations of Realizing Utopia in the United States and Europe

6 Utopia Reconsidered

7 The Resurgence of Utopianism

8 The Future of Utopias and Utopianism

Further Reading

Index

LastPages

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