The philosophy of utopia / editor, Barbara Goodwin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Barbara Goodwin -- 'Nothing is, but what is not': Utopias as Practical Political Philosophy / Peter G. Stillman -- For Utopia: The (Limits of the) Utopian Function in Late Capitalist Society / Ruth Levitas -- The Eternal Present of Utopianism / Jose Eduardo dos Reis -- Isaiah Berlin, William Morris, and the Politics of Utopia / Laurence Davis -- Utopianism and National Identity / Lyman Tower Sargent -- The Romanian Utopia: The Role of the Intelligentsia in the Communist Implementation of a New Human Paradigm / Brindusa Palade -- The Treatment of the 'Woman Question' in Radical Utopian Political Thought / Filio Diamanti -- Green Utopias of Self and Other / Lucy Sargisson -- The Illusion of Permanence: Work Motivation and Membership Turnover at Twin Oaks Community / Hilke Kuhlmann -- Scientific Utopianism in Francis Bacon and H.G. Wells: From Salomon's House to The Open Conspiracy / Richard Nate -- Biotechnology and Utopia / Brian Stableford -- Religious Narrative, Post-Secularism and Utopia / Vincent Geoghegan -- The Law-Based Utopia / Miguel Angel Ramiro Aviles.

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This collection addresses the important function of utopianism in social and political philosophy and includes debate on what its future role will be in a period dominated by dystopian nightmare scenarios.

English.

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