Utopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing 1516-1700 (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Utopia and the Ideal Society This book provides a major study for all those working in the fields of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century political and social thought.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 28 July 1983
- Format: Paperback 440 pages
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- Categories: History Of Ideas | Political Science & Theory | Political Ideologies
- ISBN 13: 9780521275514 ISBN 10: 0521275512
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Full description for Utopia and the Ideal Society
While great interest has been shown recently in the nature of utopian thought and its significance in western development, much of the discussion has been marked by imprecision and generality. This book opens with an attempt to give clarity, substance and precision to the definition of utopia by isolating its characteristics in contrast with those of other forms of ideal society. The value of these distinctions is shown in a detailed re-examination of the sixteenth-century European writers who developed the re-emergent form of utopia. As a whole, the book brings the discussion of utopian thought closer to the mainstream concerns of the history of political ideas, and provides a major study for all those working in the fields of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century political and social thought.
