An Introduction to Sir Thomas More’s “Utopia”
Sir Thomas More’s Platonism transpires most vividly from his humbling message that the establishment of justice on earth would require the abolition of humanity. Not that certain…
Sir Thomas More’s Platonism transpires most vividly from his humbling message that the establishment of justice on earth would require the abolition of humanity. Not that certain…
Introduction Even a perfunctory read of Utopia is likely to give one pause. Included in More’s “truly golden handbook” are incongruities too glaring to escape notice—incongruities between…
I propose an inquiry into what Hans Jonas once called the “built-in, automatic utopianism” of our thought and actions. Jonas suggests that this “utopian drift” inheres in…
Anti-utopian fiction has recently gripped the American imagination. Books such as The Hunger Games and the Divergent series have sold millions of copies and the movies based…
Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction. Nivedita Bagchi. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. In Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction,…