Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World

Edited by Roland Schaer, Gregory Claeys, and Lyman Tower Sargent


Contents:

Preface, by Jean-Pierre Angremy and Paul LeClerc

Frames of Reference: "Utopia: Space, Time, History," by Roland Schaer; "Utopian Traditions: Themes and Variations," by Lyman Tower Sargent; "Society as Utopia," by Alain Touraine

The Sources of Utopia: "Ancient, Biblical, and Medieval Traditions," by Danielle Lecoq and Roland Schaer; "Plato's Atlantis: The True Utopia," by Jean-François Pradeau

Of Other Worlds: The Spread of the Utopian Imagination, from Thomas More to the Enlightenment:
"Utopia and the New World, 1500-1700," by J. C. Davis; "The City as an Intellectual Exercise," by Ruth Eaton; "Mundus novus et renovatio mundi: Messianic and Utopian Currents in the Indies of Castille," by Alain Milhou; "Utopia and the Reformation," by Frank Lestringant; "On the Frontiers of Utopia: Satires and Robinsonades," by Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent

Utopia in History: From the Time of Revolutions to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century: "Utopia and Revolutions," by Lyman Tower Sargent and Roland Schaer; "Fin-de-siècle Landscapes Against a Background of Ruins," by Bronislaw Baczko; "Socialism and Utopia," by Gregory Claeys; "Utopia and Nineteenth-century French Literature," by Laurent Portes

Dreams and Nightmares: Utopia and Anti-Utopia in the Twentieth Century: "Utopia and Anti-Utopia in the Twentieth Century," by Krishan Kumar; "Communal Movements in the Twentieth Century," by Yaacov Oved; "Utopia and Twentieth-century Avant-gardes," by Roland Schaer; "Architecture and Urbanism: The Faces of Utopia," by Ruth Eaton; "Utopia and Totalitarianism," by Frédéric Rouvillois; "Utopia and the Late Twentieth Century: A View from North America," by Lyman Tower Sargent; "Utopia and the Philosophical Status of Constructed Space," by Françoise Choay

Envisioning Utopia: "Symbolic Collapse: Utopia Challenged by Its Representations," by Laurent Gervereau


2000, 300 illustrations in color and black and white, 400 pages, hardcover, $49.95, ISBN 0-19-514110-5; paperback, $27.95, ISBN 0-19-514111-3
Published by Oxford University Press



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