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dc.contributor.editorDavis, J. C.
dc.contributor.editorAvilés, Miguel Ángel Ramiro
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-14T14:52:43Z
dc.date.available2022-10-14T14:52:43Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifierONIX_20221014_9781849666855_59
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58728
dc.description.abstractThis book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Is it possible to create a better world? Can this be done without the image of an ideal world to guide us? What would such a world be like? There has been a marked renewal of interest in utopian thought, as the exposed economic, social and political dysfunctions of modern society have forced us to re-examine our visions of the future. Yet the wealth of utopian literature on which we could draw remains inaccessible or poorly understood. This book readdresses this imbalance, with a collection of essays, each centred on a key passage in a canonical utopian work that challenges the commonly accepted interpretation of that work and allows us to examine it with fresh insight. At the same time, by contextualising each passage within the text as a whole, readers are enabled to reflect on the meaning and reception of the work and on its significance in the history of utopian thought. Broad in scope and original in approach, this textbook is an encouragement to students and scholars alike to read the utopian classics afresh.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesTextual Moments in the History of Political Thought
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theoryen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC9 History of ideasen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: generalen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRV Aspects of religion::QRVG Theologyen_US
dc.subject.otherPolitical ideologies
dc.titleUtopian Moments
dc.title.alternativeReading Utopian Texts
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.5040/9781849666848
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b
oapen.relation.isbn9781849666855
oapen.relation.isbn9781849666831
oapen.imprintBloomsbury Academic
oapen.pages192
oapen.place.publicationLondon


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