The Philosophy of Utopia
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The Philosophy of Utopia

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The Philosophy of Utopia

About this book

This collection addresses the important function of utopianism in social and political philosophy and includes debate on what its future role will be in a period dominated by dystopian nightmare scenarios.

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Index

Abensour, M 35, 38, 39
abundance 229, 231–233 , 236
Abundantia 225 , 228–229, 231
Agostino, L 235
Aichele, G 212
alienation 145, 166
Allen, G 191
Alsop, G 90
Alterity 3, 16, 20
altruism 231–222, 234
America, see United States (USA)
anarchists 67
Anderson, B 88
Andreae, J V 179, 236, 238
anomia 7, 227–228, 233, 245
anti–foundationalism 34
anti–utopianism 4, 26, 30–31, 34–35, 57, 74, 76–78, 175
Arcadia 91, 229, 232
Aristotle 9
Armytage, W H G 89
Atwood, M 5, 19, 184
Australia
Utopias of 87, 91, 94, 99–101
Baccolini, R 30
Bacon, F 6, 172–184
Barber, B 82
Bar–Efrat, S 210
Barthes, R 208
Baruch, E H 130, 135
Bauman, Z 81
Bebel, A 116, 118, 132, 135–136
on women 128–130
Bell, S G 237
Bellamy, E 11, 12, 15, 18, 101–106, 38, 79–80, 116, 157
on women 130–136
Bentham, J 126
Beresford, J D 191–192
Berkeley, G 46
Berlin, I
critique of utopianism 1, 3–4, 56–63, 66–68, 73, 76–77
Berneri, M–L 79
Beveridge, A J 9...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Books of Related Interest
  4. Full Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. 'Nothing is, but what is not': Utopias as Practical Political Philosophy
  9. For Utopia: The (Limits of the) Utopian Function in Late Capitalist Society
  10. The Eternal Present of Utopianism
  11. Isaiah Berlin, William Morris, and the Politics of Utopia
  12. Utopianism and National Identity
  13. The Romanian Utopia: The Role of the Intelligentsia in the Communist Implementation of a New Human Paradigm
  14. The Treatment of the 'Woman Question' in Radical Utopian Political Thought
  15. Green Utopias of Self and Other
  16. The Illusion of Permanence: Work Motivation and Membership Turnover at Twin Oaks Community
  17. Scientific Utopianism in Francis Bacon and H.G. Wells: From Salomon's House to The Open Conspiracy
  18. Biotechnology and Utopia
  19. Religious Narrative, Post-Secularism and Utopia
  20. The Law-Based Utopia
  21. Abstracts
  22. Notes on Contributors
  23. Index