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Utopias and Utopian Thought : A Timely Appraisal
Utopias and Utopian Thought A Timely Appraisal Author:Frank E. Manuel (Editor) "[In this book] Utopias have now been revisited by a glittering squad. ... They discuss utopia's lineage, analyze its many literary incarnations, and more sketchily touch on a few real-life communities founded on utopian propositions ... the essays clearly reveal that utopias at their best are not mere flights of fancy, but a form of social thin... more »king. They are, so to speak, works in which political science, economics, sociology, etc., are wedded with the literary imagination, so that the reader is offered not merely dry theories but the taste and sight of possible societies." -- Chad Walsh, in Saturday Review
"Utopias and Utopian Thought" was a symposium arranged by Daedalus and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1965. This volume includes essays by Bertrand de Jouvenel, Mircea Eliade, Northrop Frye, Lewis Mumford, Paul B. Sears, Paul Tillich, and ten other distinguished contributors.« less