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Historical dictionary of utopianism
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ISBN: 0810849127 Year: 2004 Volume: 51

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The dissection of Owenism dissected, or, A socialist's answer to Mr Frederic R Lees's pamphlet, entitled "A calm examination of the fundamental principles of Robert Owen's misnamed rational system"
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Year: 1838 Publisher: [England? s.n.]


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La France sous Vichy : Autour de Robert O. Paxton
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ISBN: 2804800024 9782804800024 Year: 2004 Volume: *18 Publisher: Bruxelles : Paris : Editions Complexe, Institut d'histoire du temps présent [Paris],


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Marx's Inferno : the political theory of Capital
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ISBN: 9780691172903 0691172900 0691180814 9780691180816 Year: 2018 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.) : Princeton University Press,

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"William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and aims of the workers' movement. Understood in this light, Capital emerges as a profound work of political theory. Placing Marx against the background of nineteenth-century socialism, Roberts shows how Capital was ingeniously modeled on Dante's Inferno, and how Marx, playing the role of Virgil for the proletariat, introduced partisans of workers' emancipation to the secret depths of the modern 'social Hell.' In this manner, Marx revised republican ideas of freedom in response to the rise of capitalism. Combining research on Marx's interlocutors, textual scholarship, and forays into recent debates, Roberts traces the continuities linking Marx's theory of capitalism to the tradition of republican political thought. He immerses the reader in socialist debates about the nature of commerce, the experience of labor, the power of bosses and managers, and the possibilities of political organization. Roberts rescues those debates from the past, and shows how they speak to ever-renewed concerns about political life in today's world"


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Marx's inferno : the political theory of Capital
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ISBN: 9781400883707 1400883709 0691172900 9780691172903 9780691180816 0691180814 Year: 2018 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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Marx's Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx's Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and aims of the workers' movement. Understood in this light, Capital emerges as a profound work of political theory. Placing Marx against the background of nineteenth-century socialism, Roberts shows how Capital was ingeniously modeled on Dante's Inferno, and how Marx, playing the role of Virgil for the proletariat, introduced partisans of workers' emancipation to the secret depths of the modern "social Hell." In this manner, Marx revised republican ideas of freedom in response to the rise of capitalism.Combining research on Marx's interlocutors, textual scholarship, and forays into recent debates, Roberts traces the continuities linking Marx's theory of capitalism to the tradition of republican political thought. He immerses the reader in socialist debates about the nature of commerce, the experience of labor, the power of bosses and managers, and the possibilities of political organization. Roberts rescues those debates from the past, and shows how they speak to ever-renewed concerns about political life in today's world.

America's communal utopias
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ISBN: 080789897X 9780807898970 9781469604459 1469604450 080782299X 9780807822999 0807846090 9780807846094 Year: 1997 Publisher: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press

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From the Shakers to the Branch Davidians, America's communal utopians have captured the popular imagination. Seventeen original essays here demonstrate the relevance of such groups to the mainstream of American social, religious, and economic life. The contributors examine the beliefs and practices of the most prominent utopian communities founded before 1965, including the long-overlooked Catholic monastic communities and Jewish agricultural colonies. Also featured are the Ephrata Baptists, Moravians, Shakers, Harmonists, Hutterites, Inspirationists of Amana, Mormons, Owenites, Fourierists, I


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The Last Utopians
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ISBN: 140088960X 9781400889600 9780691154169 0691154163 Year: 2018 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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The entertaining story of four utopian writers-Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman-and their continuing influence todayFor readers reared on the dystopian visions of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid's Tale, the idea of a perfect society may sound more sinister than enticing. In this lively literary history of a time before "Orwellian" entered the cultural lexicon, Michael Robertson reintroduces us to a vital strain of utopianism that seized the imaginations of late nineteenth-century American and British writers.The Last Utopians delves into the biographies of four key figures--Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman-who lived during an extraordinary period of literary and social experimentation. The publication of Bellamy's Looking Backward in 1888 opened the floodgates of an unprecedented wave of utopian writing. Morris, the Arts and Crafts pioneer, was a committed socialist whose News from Nowhere envisions a workers' Arcadia. Carpenter boldly argued that homosexuals constitute a utopian vanguard. Gilman, a women's rights activist and the author of "The Yellow Wallpaper," wrote numerous utopian fictions, including Herland, a visionary tale of an all-female society.These writers, Robertson shows, shared a belief in radical equality, imagining an end to class and gender hierarchies and envisioning new forms of familial and romantic relationships. They held liberal religious beliefs about a universal spirit uniting humanity. They believed in social transformation through nonviolent means and were committed to living a simple life rooted in a restored natural world. And their legacy remains with us today, as Robertson describes in entertaining firsthand accounts of contemporary utopianism, ranging from Occupy Wall Street to a Radical Faerie retreat.

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Utopias in literature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General . --- Utopian literature --- Bellamy, Edward, --- Morris, William, --- Carpenter, Edward, --- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Moris, V., --- Morisu, Wiriamu, --- Morris, Uilʹi͡am, --- Morris, William M., --- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Stetson, --- Perkins, Charlotte Anna, --- Stetson, Charles Walter, --- Stetson, Charlotte Perkins, --- Karpenter, Ėduard, --- Bellamy, Edvard, --- Beramī, Edowādo, --- Morris, Uilʹi︠a︡m, --- Морис, В., --- Bellamy, Edward --- Bellamy, Edvard --- Beramī, Edowādo --- בעלאמי, ע. --- בעללאמי, א. --- Charles Fourier. --- Charlotte Perkins Gilman. --- Edward Bellamy. --- Edward Carpenter. --- Equality. --- Henri de Saint-Simon. --- Henry George. --- Herland. --- John Ruskin. --- Looking Backward. --- Nationalism. --- News from Nowhere. --- Progress and Poverty. --- Radical Faeries. --- Robert Owen. --- The Nature of Gothic. --- Thomas More. --- Towards Democracy. --- Uranians. --- Urning. --- Utopia. --- Walt Whitman. --- William Morris. --- World's Mother. --- community. --- economic equality. --- education. --- egalitarianism. --- everyday utopias. --- homogenic love. --- homosexuality. --- industrial capitalism. --- intermediate sex. --- labor. --- last utopians. --- literary dystopia. --- motherhood. --- mothers. --- progress. --- radical equality. --- religion. --- social thought. --- social transformation. --- socialism. --- sustainability. --- technology. --- transatlantic utopianism. --- universal spirit. --- utopia. --- utopian literature. --- utopianism. --- women.

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