Joad Raymond Wren

The Uses of Utopia (eBook, ePUB)

Travels to the Limits of Thought

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Utopia is not somewhere you can go. But neither is it an idle fantasy. This book traces utopian ideas across the centuries, from Plato to Margaret Cavendish and Italo Calvino. It reveals the concerns - with the relationship between authority and freedom, law and morality, sex and the sexes, work and the good life - that have animated utopian thinkers from the very beginning. Utopia enabled them to explore the limits of thought, to go beyond what we know and interrogate the very foundations of our societies.

The Uses of Utopia offers a beguiling tour not only of the remote islands, parallel realities and distant planets where this played out, but also places where those inspired by these visions of perfection attempted to bring them into being, from the humane, egalitarian communities devised by Vasco de Quiroga in colonial Mexico to Étienne Cabet's disastrous attempt to realise socialism on the Mississippi. It is a book brimming with voices as well as ideas. Luminaries and radicals of all persuasions speak freely with one another - and also to us. Here, in the world utopians reject, utopia still challenges us to reconsider where we stand.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781802069426
• Artikelnr.: 75598178

Autorenporträt

Joad Raymond is a writer and historian of early modern Europe who has taught at the universities of Oxford, Aberdeen, East Anglia, Paris-Sorbonne and Queen Mary University of London. His previous books include The Invention of the Newspaper, Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain, Milton's Angels and, as editor, Making the News, The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1600, News Networks in Early Modern Europe and The Complete Works of John Milton: Latin Defences.