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Utopian Thought in the Western World.
Title:
Utopian Thought in the Western World.
Author:
Manuel, Frank E.
ISBN:
9780674040564
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (912 pages)
Contents:
Preface -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION The Utopian Propensity -- PART I The Ancient and Medieval Wellsprings -- 1. Paradise and the Millennium -- 2. The Golden Age of Kronos -- 3. The Great Transmission -- PART II The Birth of Utopia -- 4. The Passion of Thomas More -- 5. A Città Felice for Architects and Philosophers -- 6. Heaven on Earth for the Common Man -- PART III Flowering and Death of the Christian Utopia -- 7. Pansophia: A Dream of Science -- 8. Bruno, the Magus of Nola -- 9. Bacon, Trumpeter of New Atlantis -- 10. Campanella's City of the Sun -- 11. Andreae, Pastor of Christianopolis -- 12. Comenius and His Disciples -- 13. Topsy-Turvy in the English Civil War -- 14. The Sun King and His Enemies -- 15. Leibniz: The Swan Song of the Christian Republic -- PART IV Eupsychias of the Enlightenment -- 16. The Philosophes's Dilemma -- 17. The Monde Idéal of Jean-Jacques -- 18. Freedom from the Wheel -- 19. Turgot on the Future of Mind -- 20. Condorcet: Progression to Elysium -- 21. Kant: Beyond Animality -- PART V A Revolutionary Diptych -- 22. New Faces of Love -- 23. Equality or Death -- PART VI The Union of Labor and Love -- 24. The Battle of the Systems -- 25. Saint-Simon: The Pear Is Ripe -- 26. Children of Saint-Simon: The Triumph of Love -- 27. Fourier: The Burgeoning of Instinct -- 28. Owen's New Moral World -- PART VII Marx and Counter-Marx -- 29. Marx and Engels in the Landscape of Utopia -- 30. Comte, High Priest of the Positivist Church -- 31. Anarchy and the Heroic Proletariat -- PART VIII The Twilight of Utopia -- 32. Utopia Victoriana -- 33. Darwinism, the Ambiguous Intruder -- 34. Freudo-Marxism, a Hybrid for the Times -- EPILOGUE The Utopian Prospect -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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