Rethinking utopia and utopianism : the three faces of utopianism revisited and other essays /

Utopianism, or the dreams and nightmares that concern the ways in which groups of people arrange their lives and which usually envision a significantly different society than the one in which the dreamers live, lends itself to a wide variety of approaches. Utopianism includes what is called its thre...

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Main Author: Sargent, Lyman Tower, 1940- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2022].
Series:Ralahine utopian studies.
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Summary:Utopianism, or the dreams and nightmares that concern the ways in which groups of people arrange their lives and which usually envision a significantly different society than the one in which the dreamers live, lends itself to a wide variety of approaches. Utopianism includes what is called its three faces, utopian literature, utopian practice, including intentional communities, and utopian social theory. Reprints some of the author's articles together with two not previously published with the author's comments on how he came to write them and his reflections back on them from 2021.
Physical Description:xv, 413 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-413) and index.
ISBN:9781800794894
1800794894