Detalles del libro
Formato
Libro electrónico
Páginas
432
Idioma
Inglés
Publicado
Nov 1, 1999
Editorial
New York University Press
ISBN-10
0814772358
ISBN-13
9780814772355
Descripción
"The Utopia Reader is a timely and provocative collection of utopia texts ... and an excellent introduction to the vast field of utopianism."
Moreana
Utopian literature has given voice to the hopes and fears of the human race from its earliest days to the present. The only single-volume anthology of its kind, The Utopia Reader encompasses the entire spectrum and history of utopian writing-from the Old Testament and Plato's Republic, to Sir Thomas More's Utopia and George Orwell's twentieth century dystopia, Nineteen Eighty-Four, through to the present day.
The editors of this definitive collection demonstrate the various ways in which utopias have been used throughout history as veiled criticism of existing conditions and how peoples excluded from the dominant discourse-such as women and minorities-have used the form to imagine empowering alternatives to present circumstances.
An engaging tour through the dissident, polemic, and satirical tradition of utopian writing, The Utopia Reader ultimately provides a telling portrait of civilization's persistent need to imagine and construct ideal societies.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 1
2. Utopianism before Thomas More 6
The Golden Age 7
Hesiod, Works and Days 7
Ovid, Metamorphosis 8
Vergil, Fourth Eclogue 8
Earthly Paradises 9
The Garden of Eden 9
Genesis 9
The Elysian Fields 12
Pindar, Fragments 12
Islands of the Blest 12
Horace, Epode 16 12
The Middle Ages 13
Eden 13
Dracontius 13
The Land of Prester John 14
The Lawgivers 15
Solon 15
Lycurgus 16
Utopias and Utopian Satires 27
Plato, Republic 27
Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 56
The Prophets 59
Isaiah 59
Hellenistic Utopias 60
Iambulus, Heliopolis 60
Saturnalia 64
Lucian, Saturnalia 64
The Millennium 66
The Revelation of St. John 67
II Baruch 67
Monasticism 68
The Rule of St. Benedict 68
The Rule of St. Francis 70
The Cockaigne 71
Telecleides 71
Cockaigne 71
3. The Sixteenth Century 77
Thomas More, Utopia 77
Francois Rabelais, The Abbey of Theleme 94
Michel de Montaigne, Of the Cannibals 99
4. The Seventeenth Century 104
Joseph Hall, Mundus alter et idem 104
William Shakespeare, The Tempest 105
Tommaso Campanella, The City of the Sun 106
Francis Bacon, New Atlantis 118
Gerrard Winstanley, The Law of Freedom in a Platform 126
Margaret Cavendish, The Inventory of Judgements Commonwealth 128
James Harrington, The Commonwealth of Oceana 137
5. The Eighteenth Century 141
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels 141
Louis Sebastien Mercier, Memoirs of the Year
Two Thousand Five Hundred 152
Nicolas-Edme Restif de la Bretonne, L'andrographe 163
William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice 170
Timothy Dwight, Greenfield Hill 175
Antoine-Nicolas de Condorcet, Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind 176
Thomas Spence, The Constitution of Spensonia 180
6. The Nineteenth Century 182
Communal Societies as Utopias 182
Shakers 182
Frederick William Evans, The Shaker Compendium 183
The Millennial Laws 183
Shaker Covenant 185
Amana or the Community of True Inspiration 186
The Twenty-One Rules 186
Oneida 190
System of Criticism 191
Charles Fourier, Selections Describing the Phalanstery 192
American Fourierism 199
Albert Brisbane, Association 200
Charles Henri de Saint-Simon, Sketch of a New
Political System 202
John Adolphus Etzler, The Paradise within Reach of All Men 206
Robert Owen, The Book of the New Moral World 207
ƒtienne Cabet, Voyage to Icaria 219
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto 227
Samuel Butler, Erewhon 229
Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000Ð1887 240
William Morris, News from Nowhere 273
Ignatius Donnelly, Caesar's Column 292
William Dean Howells, A Traveler from Altruria 301
7. The Twentieth Century 312
H. G. Wells, A Modern Utopia 312
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland 319
Yvgeni Zamiatin, We 329
Katherine Burdekin, Swastika Night 344
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World 347
Brave New World Revisited 362
Olaf Stapledon, Darkness and the Light 363
B. F. Skinner, Walden Two 372
Walden Two Revisited 390
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 398
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Day before the Revolution 407
About the Editors 421
Moreana
Utopian literature has given voice to the hopes and fears of the human race from its earliest days to the present. The only single-volume anthology of its kind, The Utopia Reader encompasses the entire spectrum and history of utopian writing-from the Old Testament and Plato's Republic, to Sir Thomas More's Utopia and George Orwell's twentieth century dystopia, Nineteen Eighty-Four, through to the present day.
The editors of this definitive collection demonstrate the various ways in which utopias have been used throughout history as veiled criticism of existing conditions and how peoples excluded from the dominant discourse-such as women and minorities-have used the form to imagine empowering alternatives to present circumstances.
An engaging tour through the dissident, polemic, and satirical tradition of utopian writing, The Utopia Reader ultimately provides a telling portrait of civilization's persistent need to imagine and construct ideal societies.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 1
2. Utopianism before Thomas More 6
The Golden Age 7
Hesiod, Works and Days 7
Ovid, Metamorphosis 8
Vergil, Fourth Eclogue 8
Earthly Paradises 9
The Garden of Eden 9
Genesis 9
The Elysian Fields 12
Pindar, Fragments 12
Islands of the Blest 12
Horace, Epode 16 12
The Middle Ages 13
Eden 13
Dracontius 13
The Land of Prester John 14
The Lawgivers 15
Solon 15
Lycurgus 16
Utopias and Utopian Satires 27
Plato, Republic 27
Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 56
The Prophets 59
Isaiah 59
Hellenistic Utopias 60
Iambulus, Heliopolis 60
Saturnalia 64
Lucian, Saturnalia 64
The Millennium 66
The Revelation of St. John 67
II Baruch 67
Monasticism 68
The Rule of St. Benedict 68
The Rule of St. Francis 70
The Cockaigne 71
Telecleides 71
Cockaigne 71
3. The Sixteenth Century 77
Thomas More, Utopia 77
Francois Rabelais, The Abbey of Theleme 94
Michel de Montaigne, Of the Cannibals 99
4. The Seventeenth Century 104
Joseph Hall, Mundus alter et idem 104
William Shakespeare, The Tempest 105
Tommaso Campanella, The City of the Sun 106
Francis Bacon, New Atlantis 118
Gerrard Winstanley, The Law of Freedom in a Platform 126
Margaret Cavendish, The Inventory of Judgements Commonwealth 128
James Harrington, The Commonwealth of Oceana 137
5. The Eighteenth Century 141
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels 141
Louis Sebastien Mercier, Memoirs of the Year
Two Thousand Five Hundred 152
Nicolas-Edme Restif de la Bretonne, L'andrographe 163
William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice 170
Timothy Dwight, Greenfield Hill 175
Antoine-Nicolas de Condorcet, Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind 176
Thomas Spence, The Constitution of Spensonia 180
6. The Nineteenth Century 182
Communal Societies as Utopias 182
Shakers 182
Frederick William Evans, The Shaker Compendium 183
The Millennial Laws 183
Shaker Covenant 185
Amana or the Community of True Inspiration 186
The Twenty-One Rules 186
Oneida 190
System of Criticism 191
Charles Fourier, Selections Describing the Phalanstery 192
American Fourierism 199
Albert Brisbane, Association 200
Charles Henri de Saint-Simon, Sketch of a New
Political System 202
John Adolphus Etzler, The Paradise within Reach of All Men 206
Robert Owen, The Book of the New Moral World 207
ƒtienne Cabet, Voyage to Icaria 219
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto 227
Samuel Butler, Erewhon 229
Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000Ð1887 240
William Morris, News from Nowhere 273
Ignatius Donnelly, Caesar's Column 292
William Dean Howells, A Traveler from Altruria 301
7. The Twentieth Century 312
H. G. Wells, A Modern Utopia 312
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland 319
Yvgeni Zamiatin, We 329
Katherine Burdekin, Swastika Night 344
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World 347
Brave New World Revisited 362
Olaf Stapledon, Darkness and the Light 363
B. F. Skinner, Walden Two 372
Walden Two Revisited 390
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four 398
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Day before the Revolution 407
About the Editors 421
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