Utopias

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316471916Author Rutger BregmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915643544Author Thomas MoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint HeroPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g

Rethinking Utopia is a collection that discusses utopian thinking in relation to different philosophical themes. It seeks utopianism in political theory (particularly in Kant and Derrida), populism, Turkish Islamism, international law, and it fleshes out...

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A pathbreaking exploration of the fate of utopia in our troubled times, this book shows how the historically intertwined endeavors of utopia and critique might be leveraged in response to humanity's looming existential challenges. Utopia in the Age of...

Edward Venn-Thomas lives in the twentieth century but has been mysteriously transported to the future, and the apparently idyllic society of New Create, where there is no hunger, no war and no dissatisfaction. However Venn-Thomas is starting to find life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684512201Author Mark BauerleinFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Regnery PublishingPublisher Regnery PublishingWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Yavor Tarinski examines the fundamental conflict between democratic aspirations and the imposed norms of capitalism, the potential for directly democratic and ecologically designed cities, the imperative to renew the commons, and the prospects for a...

Five hundred years since its first publication, Thomas More's Utopia remains astonishingly radical and provocative. More imagines an island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and women are both educated, and property is communal. In a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629633817Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

At present the battle over who defines our future is being waged most publicly by secular and religious fundamentalists. 'Hope and the Longing for Utopia' offers an alternative position, disclosing a conceptual path toward potential worlds that resist a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692332276Author D D CrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Mma Publishing Group InternationalPublisher Mma Publishing Group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788793494985Author Thomas MoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Fili PublicPublisher Fili PublicWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732784901Author Bryce JohannesFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Bryce JohannesPublisher Bryce JohannesWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644929049Author Glenn Scott Allistair SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Christian Faith Publishing, IncPublisher Christian Faith Publishing,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798885312172Author Barry LindstromFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Booklocker.comPublisher Booklocker.comWeight(grams) 435g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667601038Author Charlotte Perkins GilmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789719460312Author Thomas More XFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Andromeda BookPublisher Andromeda BookWeight(grams) 218g

Utopian thinking embraces fictional descriptions of how to create a better (but not a perfect) alternative way of life as well as intentional communities (that is, groups of people leading lives in small communities for their own betterment and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353420581Author Herbert George WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 156g

Artificial Life After Frankenstein brings the insights born of Mary Shelley's legacy to bear upon the ethics and politics of making artificial life and intelligence in the twenty-first century. What are the obligations of humanity to the artificial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999588512Author Sky BlueFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Fellowship for Intentional CommunityPublisher Fellowship for Intentional...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645594812Author H G WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Spinebill PressPublisher Spinebill PressWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615856209Author D D CrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Mma Publishing Group InternationalPublisher Mma Publishing Group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578780030Author Robertson WorkFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Compassionate Civilization PressPublisher Compassionate Civilization...

Utopia (1516) is a work of political satire by Thomas More. Published in Latin while More was serving as Privy Counsellor under King Henry VIII, the text is stylized as a true account of a new civilization discovered in the New World by traveler Raphael...

Auroville in Tamil Nadu, South India, is an internationally recognized endeavour in prefiguring an alternative society: the largest, most diverse, dynamic and enduring of intentional communities worldwide. This book is a critical and insightful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462700796Author Veerle AchtenFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University PressWeight(grams) 85g

A pathbreaking exploration of the fate of utopia in our troubled times, this book shows how the historically intertwined endeavors of utopia and critique might be leveraged in response to humanity's looming existential challenges. Utopia in the Age of...

A comparative analysis of both secular and religious communal groups in contemporary America, this study, originally published in 1978, shows that contemporary communalists stand in relation to collectivism much the same as early Protestants stood in...

A comparative analysis of both secular and religious communal groups in contemporary America, this study, originally published in 1978, shows that contemporary communalists stand in relation to collectivism much the same as early Protestants stood in...

We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state-a state that Thomas More, writing five centuries ago, tied to a topos, a fixed place, a land, an island, a sovereign state under a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640093577Author Adrian ShirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 459g

This book, originally published in 1923, embodies two related and yet distinct types of sociological endeavour. It is a study in the history of social thought, a field which had only been receiving serious and widespread attention in recent years, and...

Citizenship Utopias in the Global South is an edited collection of empirical research that explores emergent forms of activism in Africa, Asia, and Latin America in times of multiple crises. At the intersection of hope and disillusionment, the diverse...

Until the Age of Enlightenment, utopia was a literary genre without concrete political effects. However, in France, in the decades leading up to 1789, its status gradually changed. The ideal of a community of property and labour, not yet called...

The Ends of Utopian Thinking in Critical Theory offers a critical account of how utopian thinking became defeated as a tool of philosophy whose explicit objective has been to not only analyse but emancipate the world. While such philosophy was originally...

When History Had Other Plans consists of 12 stand-alone chapters which immediately furnish the reader with attention-grabbing one-liners, as evidenced in its choice of chapter titles - Hitler Ended Racism; More Environmentalism, More CO2; The West...