Utopian Moments: Reading Utopian Texts: Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought
Editat de Professor J. C. Davis, Miguel Ángel Ramiro Avilésen Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 apr 2012
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781849668217
ISBN-10: 1849668213
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1849668213
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Short, accessible essays by an international team comprising the most distinguished scholars in the field
Notă biografică
J.C. Davis is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of East Anglia. He has written extensively on the history of utopian thought and on political and religious thought in the English Revolution 1640-1660. He is the author of Utopia and the Ideal Society (1981), and numerous other writings on Utopian thought which are benchmarks in the field. Described as a 'brilliant and provocative iconoclast', he taught at a number of universities in the UK and abroad and set up the School of History at the University of East Anglia.
Miguel Angel Ramiro Avilés is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Law at Alcalá University and Visiting Fellow of Externado University (Bogotá, Colombia). He is member of the Monitoring Boby of the National Human Rights Action Plan. He was previously Senior Lecturer at Carlos III de Madrid University, where he was Deputy Director of the "Bartolomé de las Casas" Human Rights Institute and Director of the Human Rights Master Program.
Cuprins
1. J.C. Davis and Miguel A. Ramiro Avilés, Introduction
2. George M. Logan, Thomas More's "Utopia" (tbc)
3. Susan Bruce, Colonialists, Refugees and the Nature of Sufficiency
4. J.C. Davis, Reading "Utopia"
5. Bronwen Price, 'A dark light': Spectacle and Secrecy in Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis"
6. Maurizio Cambi, Tommaso Campanella, the "City of Sun" and the guardian stars.
7. Edward Thompson, Johann Valentin's "Christianopolis" (tbc)
8. Nadia Minerva, So Close, So Far: the Puzzle of "Antangil"
9. Miguel Angel Ramiro Avilés, "Sinapia", a Political Journey to the Antipodes of Spain
10. John Christian Laursen and Cyrus Masroori, The Persian Moment in Denis Veiras's "History of the Sevarambians"
11.John Gurney, Gerrard Winstanley's "The Law of Freedom": Context and Continuity
12. J.C. Davis, «de te Fabula narratur»: "Oceana" and James Harrington's Narrative Constitutionalism
13. Gaby Mahlberg, An island with potential: Henry Neville's "The Isle of Pines"
14. K. Steven Vincent, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794) (tbc)
15. Claudio de Boni, Nature and Utopia in Morelly's "Code De La Nature"
16. David Leopold, The Utopian Organization of Work in Icaria
17. Gregory Claeys, A Tale of Two Cities: Robert Owen and the Search for Utopia, 1815-1817
18. Jonathan Beecher, Women's Rights and Women's Liberation and the 'Riddle' of Charles Fourier's "Theory of the Four Movements"
19. Neil McWilliam, How to Change the World: Claude-Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
20. Matthew Beaumont, The Horror of Strangeness: Bellamy's Psychology of the Utopian Imagination in "Looking Backward"
21. Richard Nate, The incompatibility I could not resolve: Ambivalence in H.G. Wells's "A Modern Utopia"
22. Laurence Davis and Peter G. Stillman, Utopian Journeying: Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Dispossessed"
23. Lyman Tower Sargent, Conclusion
Descriere
Utopian Moments is a collection of short essays designed to guide readers to informed engagement with the key works of the modern western utopian tradition. It offers a fresh and original perspective on utopian writings and their interpretation.