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The Utopian Alternative
Author | : Carl J. Guarneri |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2018-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781501725289 |
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The utopian socialism of Charles Fourier spread throughout Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, but it was in the United States that it generated the most intense excitement. In this rich and engaging narrative, Carl J. Guarneri traces the American Fourierist movement from its roots in the religious, social, and economic upheavals of the 1830s, through its bold communal experiments of the 1840s, to its lingering twilight after the Civil War.
The Utopian Alternative
Author | : Carl Guarneri |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 541 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0608208973 |
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The Modern Utopian
Author | : Richard Fairfield,Timothy Miller |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 2011-05-24 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1459621689 |
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Portraits of several 70s communes and experimental groups and the trend of intentional communities of today
Urban Utopias
Author | : Malcolm Miles |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2007-11-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781134185757 |
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Utopia tends to generate a bad press - regarded as impracticable, perhaps nostalgic, or contradictory when visions of a perfect world cannot accommodate the change that is necessary to a free and self-organizing society. But people from diverse backgrounds are currently building a new society within the old, balancing literal and metaphorical utopianism, and demonstrating plural possibilities for alternative futures and types of settlement. Thousands of such places exist around the world, including intentional communities, eco-villages, permaculture plots, religious and secular retreats, co-housing projects, self-build schemes, projects for low-impact housing, and activist squats in urban and rural sites. This experience suggests, however, that when planning and design are not integral to alternative social formations, the modern dream to engineer a new society cannot be realized. The book is structured in four parts. In part one, literary and theoretical utopias from the early modern period to the nineteenth-century are reconsidered. Part two investigates twentieth-century urban utopianism and contemporary alternative settlements focusing on social and environmental issues, activism and eco-village living. Part three looks to wider horizons in recent practices in the non-affluent world, and Part four reviews a range of cases from the author’s visits to specific sites. This is followed by a short conclusion in which a discussion of key issues is resumed. This book brings together insights from literary, theoretical and practical utopias, drawing out the characteristics of groups and places that are part of a new society. It links today’s utopian experiments to historical and literary utopias, and to theoretical problems in utopian thought.
Envisioning Real Utopias
Author | : Erik Olin Wright |
Publsiher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781789601459 |
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Rising inequality of income and power, along with recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet few are attempting this task-most analysts argue that any attempt to rethink our social and economic relations is utopian. Erik Olin Wright's major new work is a comprehensive assault on the quietism of contemporary social theory. A systematic reconstruction of the core values and feasible goals for Left theorists and political actors, Envisioning Real Utopias lays the foundations for a set of concrete, emancipatory alternatives to the capitalist system. Characteristically rigorous and engaging, this will become a landmark of social thought for the twenty-first century.
Exploring the Utopian Impulse
Author | : Michael J. Griffin,Tom Moylan |
Publsiher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3039109138 |
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A series of essays by an international and trans-disciplinary group of contributors which explores the nature and extent of the utopian impulse. Working across a range of historical periods and cultures, the book investigates key aspects of utopian theory, texts, and socio-political practices.
Utopia Drive
Author | : Erik Reece |
Publsiher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2016-08-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780374710750 |
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For Erik Reece, life, at last, was good: he was newly married, gainfully employed, living in a creekside cabin in his beloved Kentucky woods. It sounded, as he describes it, "like a country song with a happy ending." And yet he was still haunted by a sense that the world--or, more specifically, his country--could be better. He couldn't ignore his conviction that, in fact, the good ol' USA was in the midst of great social, environmental, and political crises--that for the first time in our history, we were being swept into a future that had no future. Where did we--here, in the land of Jeffersonian optimism and better tomorrows--go wrong? Rather than despair, Reece turned to those who had dared to imagine radically different futures for America. What followed was a giant road trip and research adventure through the sites of America's utopian communities, both historical and contemporary, known and unknown, successful and catastrophic. What he uncovered was not just a series of lost histories and broken visionaries but also a continuing and vital but hidden idealistic tradition in American intellectual history. Utopia Drive is an important and definitive reconstruction of that tradition. It is also, perhaps, a new framework to help us find a genuinely sustainable way forward. " ... an engaging exploration -- and example -- of the fruitful tunnel-visions of dreamers turned doers." - Publishers Weekly
The Utopian Impulse in Latin America
Author | : K. Beauchesne,A. Santos |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2011-10-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780230339613 |
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An exploration of the concept of utopia in Latin America from the earliest accounts of the New World to current cultural production, the carefully selected essays in this volume represent the latest research on the topic by some of the most important Latin Americanists working in North American academia today.