In this volume, John Farrell shows that political utopias have a perennial opponent, the honor-based culture of aristocracy that dominated most of the world from ancient times into early modernity and whose status-based competitive psychology persists to the present day.
In this volume, John Farrell shows that political utopias have a perennial opponent, the honor-based culture of aristocracy that dominated most of the world from ancient times into early modernity and whose status-based competitive psychology persists to the present day.
John Farrell is the Waldo W. Neikirk Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College, where he has been teaching since 1990.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Imagining a World Without Heroes 1/ The Hero and the City: Homer to Diogenes 2/ Thomas More's Imaginary Kingdom 3/ Francis Bacon and the Heroism of the Age 4/ Jonathan Swift and Utopian Madness 5/ Voltaire's Garden Retreat 6/ Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Land of Chimaeras 7/ Adam Smith and the Utopia of Commercial Society 8/ Karl Marx and the Heroic Revolution 9/ Fyodor Dostoevsky and the Ungrateful Biped 10/ Edward Bellamy's Invisible Army 11/ William Morris and the Taming of Art 12/ H. G. Wells and the Samurai 13/ Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Mothers' Utopia 14/ Yevgeny Zamyatin and the Scythian Horde 15/ Aldous Huxley and the Rebels Against Happiness 16/ George Orwell's Dystopian Socialism 17/ B. F. Skinner's World Without Heroes 18/ Anthony Burgess and the Revenge of the Dandy Conclusion
Introduction: Imagining a World Without Heroes 1/ The Hero and the City: Homer to Diogenes 2/ Thomas More's Imaginary Kingdom 3/ Francis Bacon and the Heroism of the Age 4/ Jonathan Swift and Utopian Madness 5/ Voltaire's Garden Retreat 6/ Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Land of Chimaeras 7/ Adam Smith and the Utopia of Commercial Society 8/ Karl Marx and the Heroic Revolution 9/ Fyodor Dostoevsky and the Ungrateful Biped 10/ Edward Bellamy's Invisible Army 11/ William Morris and the Taming of Art 12/ H. G. Wells and the Samurai 13/ Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Mothers' Utopia 14/ Yevgeny Zamyatin and the Scythian Horde 15/ Aldous Huxley and the Rebels Against Happiness 16/ George Orwell's Dystopian Socialism 17/ B. F. Skinner's World Without Heroes 18/ Anthony Burgess and the Revenge of the Dandy Conclusion
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