A Hazard of New Fortunes
A Hazard of New Fortunes is a novel by William Dean Howells. Copyrighted in 1889 and first published in the U.S. by Harper & Bros. in 1890, the book was well-received for its portrayal of social...
View ArticleBlack Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia
<p>For the decade that followed the end of the cold war, the world was lulled into a sense that a consumerist, globalized, peaceful future beckoned. The beginning of the twenty-first century has...
View ArticleIn Utopia: Six Kinds of Eden and the Search for a Better Paradise
<p>In 2005, J.C. Hallman came across a scientific paper about "Pleistocene Rewilding," a peculiar idea from conservation biology that suggested repopulating bereft ecosystems with endangered...
View ArticleThe Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context
<span><span style="font-style:italic;">The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context </span><span>brings together scholars working in the fields of the humanities and...
View ArticleNicaragua and the Politics of Utopia: Development and Culture in the Modern...
In Nicaragua, the perfect state is always just out of reach
View ArticlePolarized: The Rise of Ideology in American Politics
<span><span>From campus protests to the Congress floor, the central feature of contemporary American politics is ideological polarization. In this concise, readable, but comprehensive text,...
View ArticleParadise Now: The Story of American Utopianism
<b>For readers of Jill Lepore, Joseph J. Ellis, and Tony Horwitz comes a lively, thought-provoking intellectual history of the golden age of American utopianism??"and the bold, revolutionary, and...
View ArticleScience Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics: Transmedia World-Building Beyond...
<span><span>From Tolkien to </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Star Trek</span><span> and from </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Game of...
View ArticleAldous Huxley: The Political Thought of a Man of Letters
<span><span style="font-style:italic;">Aldous Huxley: The Political Thought of a Man of Letters</span><span> examines Huxley
View ArticlePolitical Morality in a Disenchanted World
<span><span><span>Edmund Abegg constructs a coherent path that leads from abstract psychological and moral theory to ideal political and economic scenarios and then to their...
View ArticleThe Village Against The World
The land is for those who work it—<i>"La tierra es de quien la trabaja."</i><p>One hundred kilometers from Seville, there is a small village, Marinaleda, that for the last...
View ArticleUtopia
16th-century classic by English ecclesiastic and scholar envisioned a tolerant, patriarchal island kingdom free of private property, violence, bloodshed and vice. Forerunner of many later...
View ArticleThe New Atlantis and The City of the Sun: Two Classic Utopias
Campanella was a student of logic and physics; Bacon focused on politics and philosophy — but despite their authors' differences, each of these meditations on the ideal society reflects the...
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