Main entry:

Claeys, Gregory.

Title & Author:

Searching for Utopia : the history of an idea / Gregory Claeys.

Publication:

New York, New York : Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2011.
©2011

Description:

224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
"With 206 illustrations, 141 in colour."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-220) and index.
The search for Utopia -- The Classical Age: myths, golden ages and ideal constitutions -- Christian archetypes: heaven and hell, millennium and apocalypse -- Extra-European visions of the ideal society: nowhere, elsewhere -- A genre defined: Thomas More's Utopia -- Paradise found?: voyages of discovery to the new world and beyond -- The age of Defoe and Swift: satires and desert islands -- Revolution and enlightenment: America, France and worlds remade -- Ideal cities: medieval to modern -- Utopia as community: from Shakers to hippies -- The second age of revolution: socialism, communism and anarchism -- Inventing progress: rationalism, technology and modernity as Utopia -- The emergence of science fiction: new worlds above and beyond -- Varieties of dystopia: totalitarianism and after in satire and reality -- Utopia, science fiction and film: the final frontier -- Paradise lost?.

Summary:

Explores the quest for a utopian society throughout history, including examinations of the catalysts that have served as inspiration, and how the search for a utopia by developed countries has hurt third-world countries.

ISBN:

9780500251744 (hardcover)
0500251746 (hardcover)

Subject:

Utopias History.
Utopias in art.
Utopies Histoire.
Utopies dans l'art.
Utopias
Utopie

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.
Utopian fiction
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 273234
Call No.: BIB 206743
Status: Available