The Utopia Reader, Second Edition
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Overview
Utopianism is defined as the various ways of imagining, creating, or analyzing the ways and means of creating an ideal or alternative society. Prominent writers and scholars across history have long explored how or why to envision different ways of life. The volume includes texts from classical Greek literature, the Old Testament, and Plato’s Republic, to Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, to George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and beyond. By balancing well-known and obscure examples, the text provides a comprehensive and definitive collection of the various ways Utopias have been conceived throughout history and how Utopian ideals have served as criticisms of existing sociocultural conditions.
This new edition includes many historically well-known works, little known but influential texts, and contemporary writings, providing an even more expansive coverage of the varieties of approaches and responses to the concept of utopia in the past, present, and even the future. In particular, the volume now includes feminist writings and work by authors of color, and contends with current concerns, such as the exploration of the ecological ideals of Utopia. Furthermore, Claeys and Sargent highlight twenty-first century trends and popular narrative explorations of Utopias through the genres of young adult dystopias, survivalist dystopias, and non-print utopias. Covering a range of original theories of utopianism and revealing the nuances and concerns of writers across history as they attempt to envision different, ideal societies, The Utopia Reader is an essential resource for anyone who envisions a better future.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781479837076 |
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| Publisher: | New York University Press |
| Publication date: | 02/14/2017 |
| Edition description: | Reprint |
| Pages: | 576 |
| Sales rank: | 511,780 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.30(d) |
About the Author
Lyman Tower Sargent, Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, is author and editor of numerous books including Extremism in America and Political Thought in the United States.
Table of Contents
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
1 Utopianism before Thomas More 17
The Myths 18
The Golden Age 18
Hesiod, Works and Days 18
Ovid, Metamorphoses 19
Vergil, Fourth Eclogue 20
Earthly Paradises 20
The Garden of Eden 20
Genesis 20
The Elysian Fields 23
Pindar, Fragments 23
Islands of the Blest 24
Horace, Epode 16 24
Earthly Paradises in the Middle Ages 25
The Garden of Eden 25
Dracontius 25
The Land of Prester John 25
The Lawgivers 27
Solon 27
Lycurgus 28
Utopias and Utopian Satires 39
Plato, Republic 39
Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 68
The Prophets 72
Isaiah 72
Hellenistic Utopias 72
Iambulus, Heliopolis 73
Saturnalia 76
Lucian of Samosata, Saturnalia 77
The Millennium 79
The Revelation of St. John 79
II Baruch 80
Joachim of Fiore, The Arrangement of the New People of God in the Third State after the Model of the Heavenly Jerusalem 81
Monasticism 83
The Rule of Saint Benedict 83
The Rule of Saint Francis 85
The Cockaigne 87
Telecleides 87
Cockaigne 87
2 The Sixteenth Century 93
Thomas More, Utopia 93
Francois Rabelais, The Abbey of Theleme 110
Michel de Montaigne, Of the Cannibals 115
3 The Seventeenth Century 119
Joseph Hall, Mundus alter et idem 119
William Shakespeare, The Tempest 121
Tommaso Campanella, The City of the Sun 122
Francis Bacon, New Atlantis 135
Gerrard Winstanley, The Law of Freedom in a Platform 142
Margaret Cavendish, "The Inventory of Judgements Commonwealth" 145
James Harrington, The Commonwealth of Oceana 154
4 The Eighteenth Century 159
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels 159
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men 170
Louis Sebastien Mercier, Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred 176
Nicolas-Edmé Restif de la Bretonne, L'andrographe 188
Wilham Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice 196
Timothy Dwight Greenfield Hill 201
Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind 202
Thomas Spence, The Constitution of Spensonia 206
5 The Nineteenth Century 209
Communal Societies as Utopias 209
Shakers 209
Frederick William Evans, The Shaker Compendium 210
The Millennial Laws or Gospel Statutes and Ordinances Adapted to the Day of Christ's Second Appearing 210
Shaker Covenant 213
Amana, or the Community of True Inspiration 213
The Twenty-One Rules for the Examination of Our Daily Lives 214
Oneida 217
System of Criticism 218
Charles Fourier, Selections Describing the Phalanstery 220
American Fourierism 227
Albert Brisbane, Association 227
Modern Times 230
Moncure Conway, Autobiography 230
Utopianism and Utopian Literature 232
John Lithgow, Equality, a History of Lithconia 232
Charles Henri de Saint-Simon, Sketch of a New Political System 242
John Adolphus Etzler, The Paradise within Reach of All Men, without Labour, by Powers of Nature and Machinery 247
Robert Owen, The Book of the New Moral World 248
Étienne Cabet, Voyage to Icaria 261
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto 268
Samuel Butler, Erewhon 270
Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000-1887 282
William Morris's review of Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward 315
William Morris, News from Nowhere 320
Edward Bellamy's review of William Morris, News from Nowhere 339
Ignatius Donnelly, Caesar's Column 340
Theodor Hertzka, Freeland 351
William Dean Howells, A Traveler from Altruria 358
Andrew Acworth, A New Eden 368
6 The Twentieth Century 371
H. G. Wells, A Modem Utopia 371
Gabriel Tarde, Underground Man 378
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, "Sultana's Dream" 385
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland 394
Yevgeny Zamiatm, We 404
Katherine Burdekin, Swastika Night 420
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World 422
Brave New World Revisited 438
Olaf Stapledon, Darkness and the Light 439
B. F. Skinner, Walden Two 448
"Walden Two Revisited" 465
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 474
Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Day before the Revolution" 483
Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston 496
Evie Shockley, "separation anxiety" 509
Afterword: The Twenty-First Century 525
Young Adult Dystopias 525
Survivalist Dystopias 526
Non-Print Utopias 527
Occupy 528
Notes 531
Index 535
About the Editors 545