Contents
6 1 What is Utopia? What is Utopian Political Thought? Homo utopicus: The Mindset of the Utopian Animal Defining Utopia/Utopianism Types of Utopia Defining Utopian Political Thought Utopia and Politics Are Utopia and Utopian Political Thought Western Manifestations?
7 2 Utopianism before Utopia Sparta as Utopian Myth/Model Plato’s Republic: The Great Thought Experiment The Problem of Total Commitment The Bible as Utopian and Dystopian Inspiration
8 3 Inventing Utopia Utopia as Critique The Just Society Religion and Politics in Utopia More’s Utopia as Political Thought
9 4 Utopia and the Age of Revolution Utopian Dreaming in the English Revolution Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers James Harrington’s Immortal Commonwealth The American Revolution and Thomas Paine Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the French Revolution The Problem of Utopia and Revolution
10 5 Utopia and Modernity Varieties of Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Utopian Thought Bellamy’s Disciplined Utopia Morris’s Pastoral Utopia Wells’s Platonic Utopia Gilman’s Feminist Utopia Twentieth-Century Variants on the Theme Utopia as a Process Toward Dystopia
11 6 Utopia and/as Ideology Marx/Marxism as Utopian Ernst Bloch: Hope and Dreams Libertarianism as Utopian Ideology Designing Libertarian Utopia Utopia as Liberation Whither Utopian Thought?
12 7 From Utopia to Dystopia Dystopian Themes: Freedom/Isolation/Hidden Evil Zamyatin’s Machine State Huxley and Inhuman Stability Orwell and the Nihilism of Power Atwood and Dystopian Isolation The Dystopian Post-human The Anthropocene as Dystopia The Necessity of Dystopian Political Thought
13 8 Does Utopia Have a Future? The Status of Utopia The Future of Utopian Theory What is to be done?
14 References
15 Index
Guide
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