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The utopian dilemma in the Western political imagination / John Farrell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Farrell, John, 1957- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Utopias in literature.
- Political science--Western countries--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Politics and literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 226 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
- Biography/History:
- John Farrell is the Waldo W. Neikirk Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College, where he has been teaching since 1990.
- Contents:
- Introduction : imagining a world without heroes
- The hero and the city : Homer to Diogenes
- Thomas More's imaginary kingdom
- Francis Bacon and the heroism of the age
- Jonathan Swift and utopian madness
- Voltaire's garden retreat
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the land of chimaeras
- Adam Smith and the utopia of commercial society
- Karl Marx and the heroic revolution
- Fyodor Dostoevsky and the ungrateful biped
- Edward Bellamy's invisible army
- William Morris and the taming of art
- H.G. Wells and the samurai
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the mothers' utopia
- Evgeny Zamyatin and the infinite revolutions
- Aldous Huxley and the rebels against happiness
- George Orwell's dystopian socialism
- B.F. Skinner's world without heroes
- Anthony Burgess and the return of the dandy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 03, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Farrell, John, 1957- Utopian dilemma in the Western political imagination
- ISBN:
- 9781003365945
- 1003365949
- 9781000859638
- 1000859630
- 9781000859577
- 1000859576
- Publisher Number:
- 40031677027
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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