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Book The American Foundations of the Hispanic Utopia  1492 1793  The literary utopia  Sinapia  a classical utopia of Spain and the Discurso de la educaci  on

Download or read book The American Foundations of the Hispanic Utopia 1492 1793 The literary utopia Sinapia a classical utopia of Spain and the Discurso de la educaci on written by Stelio Cro and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Moreana

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 480 pages

Download or read book Moreana written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Utopia

Download or read book American Utopia written by Peter Swirski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Black Tuesday to the White House, from Plato to Robert Nozick, from Eugene Debs to Richard Nixon, from Peter Cornelis Plockhoy to the hippie communes of the Sixties, from universal basic income to utopian basic income, from proverbial wisdom to multilevel selection, from Big Data to paleomorality, from Prisoner’s Dilemma to social-engineering Israeli kindergartens, from time travel to gene engineering, from the pretzel logic of meritocracy to deaggressing humanity, American Utopia maps the pitfalls and windfalls of social reform in the name of the human use of human beings. Interrogating the assumptions behind four outré utopias by Thomas M. Disch, Bernard Malamud, Kurt Vonnegut, and Margaret Atwood, the book interrogates the assumptions that have historically been central to the utopian project. Whence the seeds of social discontent? Whence our taste for egoism and altruism? For waging war and waging peace? Can we bioengineer human nature to specifications? Should we? Who makes better guardians: humans or machines? And who will guard the guardians?

Book Utopia in Latin and in English

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  • Author : Thomas More
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2023-07-18
  • ISBN : 9781021196392
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Utopia in Latin and in English written by Thomas More and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work of fiction and political philosophy, Utopia explores themes of social and economic inequality, imperialism, and the nature of government. Written by Sir Thomas More in the early sixteenth century, the book is a seminal work of the Renaissance and a touchstone for contemporary political thought and theory. This edition includes both the original Latin text and an English translation for modern readers. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Utopia

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  • Author : Thomas More
  • Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
  • Release : 2009-01-01
  • ISBN : 1605206512
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Utopia written by Thomas More and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtitled "On the best state of a republic and on the new island of Utopia," this is the legendary 1516 political satire that, in its attempts to mock the English king Henry VIII, gave birth to an entire genre of imaginative fiction exploring the possibilities of the "perfect" society. Debate continues to rage among scholars of the Renaissance today whether More actually believed in the socialist, equalitarian concepts he espoused in *Utopia,* some of which seem unlikely positions for a wealthy, powerful man whose actions as a public figure were often at odds with them. But this remains a foundational work of Western thought and literature, and essential reading for anyone who wishes to be considered well read. English statesman and writer SIR THOMAS MORE (1478-1535) is best remembered as both a humanist scholar and a religious martyr: he was beheaded by King Henry VIII for refusing to acknowledge the monarch as the head of the Church of England.

Book Utopia

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  • Author : Thomas More
  • Publisher : Everyman's Library
  • Release : 1992-04-28
  • ISBN : 0679410767
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Utopia written by Thomas More and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1992-04-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1516, during a period of astonishing political and technological change, Sir Thomas More's Utopia depicts an imaginary society free of private property, sexual discrimination, violence, and religious intolerance. Raphael Hythloday, a philospher and world traveler, describes to the author and his friend an island nation he has visited called Utopia (combining the Greek ou-topos and eu-topos, for "no place" and "good place," respectively). Hythloday believes the rational social order of the Utopians is far superior to anything in Europe, while his listeners find many of their customs appealing but absurd. Given the enigmatic ambivalence of the character that More named after himself and the playful Greek puns he sprinkled throughout (including Hythloday's name, which means "knowing nonsense"), it is difficult to know what precisely More meant his readers to make of all the innovations of his Utopia. But its radical humanism has had an incalculable effect on modern history, and the callenge of its vision is as insistent today as it was in the Renaissance. With an introduction by Jenny Mezciems. (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)

Book In Search of the Utopian States of America

Download or read book In Search of the Utopian States of America written by Verena Adamik and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book endeavours to understand the seemingly direct link between utopianism and the USA, discussing novels that have never been brought together in this combination before, even though they all revolve around intentional communities: Imlay’s The Emigrants (1793), Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance (1852), Howland’s Papas Own Girl (1874), Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio (1899), and Du Bois’s The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911). They relate nation and utopia not by describing perfect societies, but by writing about attempts to immediately live radically different lives. Signposting the respective communal history, the readings provide a literary perspective to communal studies, and add to a deeply necessary historicization for strictly literary approaches to US utopianism, and for studies that focus on Pilgrims/Puritans/Founding Fathers as utopian practitioners. This book therefore highlights how the authors evaluated the USA’s utopian potential and traces the nineteenth-century development of the utopian imagination from various perspectives.

Book Utopia

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  • Author : Thomas More
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 0486295834
  • Pages : 98 pages

Download or read book Utopia written by Thomas More and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1997 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Latin in 1516, Utopia was the work of Sir Thomas More (1477–1535), the brilliant humanist, scholar, and churchman executed by Henry VIII for his refusal to accept the king as the supreme head of the Church of England. In this work, which gave its name to the whole genre of books and movements hypothesizing an ideal society, More envisioned a patriarchal island kingdom that practiced religious tolerance, in which everybody worked, no one has more than his fellows, all goods were community-owned, and violence, bloodshed, and vice nonexistent. Based to some extent on the writings of Plato and other earlier authors, Utopia nevertheless contained much that was original with More. In the nearly 500 years since the book's publication, there have been many attempts at establishing "Utopias" both in theory and in practice. All of them, however, seem to embody ideas already present in More's classic treatise: optimistic faith in human nature, emphasis on the environment and proper education, nostalgia for a lost innocence, and other positive elements. In this new, inexpensive edition, readers can study for themselves the essentials of More's utopian vision and how, although the ideal society he envisioned is still unrealized, at least some of his proposals have come to pass in today's world.

Book Utopia  Originally Printed in Latin  1516

Download or read book Utopia Originally Printed in Latin 1516 written by Thomas More and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Utopian Novel in America  1886 1896

Download or read book The Utopian Novel in America 1886 1896 written by Jean Pfaelzer and published by Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Utopia

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  • Author : Thomas Morus
  • Publisher : Re-Image Publishing
  • Release : 2016-06-29
  • ISBN : 3958499236
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book Utopia written by Thomas Morus and published by Re-Image Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De Optimo Republicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia (translated On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia) or more simply Utopia is a 1516 book by Sir (Saint) Thomas More. The book, written in Latin, is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. The name of the place is derived from the Greek words οὐ u and τόπος tópos , with the topographical suffix -εία eía, hence Οὐτοπεία outopeía (Latinized as Utopia), "no-place land." It also contains a pun, however, because "Utopia" could also be the Latinization of Εὐτοπεία eutopeía, "good-place land," which uses the Greek prefix ευ eu, "good," instead of οὐ. One interpretation holds that this suggests that while Utopia might be some sort of perfected society, it is ultimately unreachable. Despite modern connotations of the word it is widely accepted that the society More describes in this work was not actually his own perfect society Rather he wished to use the contrast between the imaginary unusual political ideas and the chaotic politics of his own day as a platform from which to discuss social issues in Europe.

Book Utopia

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  • Author : Sir Thomas More (Saint)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1895
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book Utopia written by Sir Thomas More (Saint) and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Utopia

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  • Author : Saint Thomas More
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1869
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Utopia written by Saint Thomas More and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Utopia

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  • Author : Thomas More
  • Publisher : Andesite Press
  • Release : 2015-08-11
  • ISBN : 9781298642509
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book Utopia written by Thomas More and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Utopia

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  • Author : Saint Thomas More
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1869
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Utopia written by Saint Thomas More and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Utopia in Latin and in English

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  • Author : Sir Thomas Moore
  • Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
  • Release : 2012-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781290203302
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Utopia in Latin and in English written by Sir Thomas Moore and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Book Utopia

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  • Author : Thomas More
  • Publisher : Nabu Press
  • Release : 2014-02
  • ISBN : 9781294607052
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book Utopia written by Thomas More and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.