{"title":"Political Science--Utopias","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"utopia","title":"Utopia","description":"In his most famous and controversial book, \u003ci\u003eUtopia\u003c\/i\u003e, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and women are both educated, and all property is communal. Through dialogue and correspondence between the protagonist Raphael Hythloday and his friends and contemporaries, More explores the theories behind war, political disagreements, social quarrels, and wealth distribution and imagines the day-to-day lives of those citizens enjoying freedom from fear, oppression, violence, and suffering. Originally written in Latin, this vision of an ideal world is also a scathing satire of Europe in the sixteenth century and has been hugely influential since publication, shaping utopian fiction even today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0140449108\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780140449105\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: More, Thomas, Turner, Paul, Turner, Paul\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Classics\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (May 2003)","offer_id":45937573068997,"sku":"9780140449105","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780140449105_246267c1-612c-4e7c-8a78-550a75138c89.jpg?v=1772881124"},{"product_id":"utopia-for-realists-how-we-can-build-the-ideal-world","title":"Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World","description":"\u003cb\u003eUniversal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe's leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell.\" -- \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e After working all day at jobs we often dislike, we buy things we don't need. Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian, reminds us it needn't be this way -- and in some places it isn't. Rutger Bregman's TED Talk about universal basic income seemed impossibly radical when he delivered it in 2014. A quarter of a million views later, the subject of that video is being seriously considered by leading economists and government leaders the world over. It's just one of the many utopian ideas that Bregman proves is possible today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eUtopia for Realists\u003c\/i\u003e is one of those rare books that takes you by surprise and challenges what you think can happen. From a Canadian city that once completely eradicated poverty, to Richard Nixon's near implementation of a basic income for millions of Americans, Bregman takes us on a journey through history, and beyond the traditional left-right divides, as he champions ideas whose time have come. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Every progressive milestone of civilization -- from the end of slavery to the beginning of democracy -- was once considered a utopian fantasy. Bregman's book, both challenging and bracing, demonstrates that new utopian ideas, like the elimination of poverty and the creation of the fifteen-hour workweek, can become a reality in our lifetime. Being unrealistic and unreasonable can in fact make the impossible inevitable, and it is the only way to build the ideal world.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0316471917\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780316471916\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Bregman, Rutger\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Back Bay Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Back Bay Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Mar 2018)","offer_id":46080509378757,"sku":"9780316471916","price":20.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780316471916.jpg?v=1776037975"},{"product_id":"socialism-utopian-and-scientific-1","title":"Socialism: Utopian and Scientific","description":"In the medi val stage of evolution of the production of commodities, the question as to the owner of the product of labour could not arise. The individual producer, as a rule, had, from raw material belonging to himself, and generally his own handiwork, produced it with his own tools, by the labour of his own hands or of his family. There was no need for him to appropriate the new product. It belonged wholly to him, as a matter of course. His property was, therefore, based upon his own labour. --from Chapter III In 1875, Dr. Eugene Duehring, a professor at Berlin University, proclaimed himself converted to Socialism, and even went so far as to promulgate his own theories on the philosophy. German philosopher FRIEDRICH ENGELS (1820-1895), who had coauthored The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx in 1848, was not pleased, and set out to refute Duehring in a highly charged work 1878 book called Anti-Duehring. In 1880, Engels excerpted three vital chapters from Anti-Duehring, which became this pamphlet, the most popular distillation of Marx and Engel's philosophies after the Manifesto itself. This primer on Marxism is an excellent introduction to concepts of socialism from one of its originators.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1605203831\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781605203836\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Engels, Friedrich, Aveling, Edward\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Cosimo Classics\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Cosimo Classics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Dec 2008)","offer_id":46081333559493,"sku":"9781605203836","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781605203836.jpg?v=1776045036"},{"product_id":"paradise-now-the-story-of-american-utopianism","title":"Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Jill Lepore, Joseph J. Ellis, and Tony Horwitz comes a lively, thought-provoking intellectual history of the golden age of American utopianism--and the bold, revolutionary, and eccentric visions for the future put forward by five of history's most influential utopian movements.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the wake of the Enlightenment and the onset of industrialism, a generation of dreamers took it upon themselves to confront the messiness and injustice of a rapidly changing world. To our eyes, the utopian communities that took root in America in the nineteenth century may seem ambitious to the point of delusion, but they attracted members willing to dedicate their lives to creating a new social order and to asking the bold question \u003ci\u003eWhat should the future look like?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eParadise Now, \u003c\/i\u003e Chris Jennings tells the story of five interrelated utopian movements, revealing their relevance both to their time and to our own. Here is Mother Ann Lee, the prophet of the Shakers, who grew up in newly industrialized Manchester, England--and would come to build a quiet but fierce religious tradition on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Even as the society she founded spread across the United States, the Welsh industrialist Robert Owen came to the Indiana frontier to build an egalitarian, rationalist utopia he called the New Moral World. A decade later, followers of the French visionary Charles Fourier blanketed America with colonies devoted to inaugurating a new millennium of pleasure and fraternity. Meanwhile, the French radical Étienne Cabet sailed to Texas with hopes of establishing a communist paradise dedicated to ideals that would be echoed in the next century. And in New York's Oneida Community, a brilliant Vermonter named John Humphrey Noyes set about creating a new society in which the human spirit could finally be perfected in the image of God. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Over time, these movements fell apart, and the national mood that had inspired them was drowned out by the dream of westward expansion and the waking nightmare of the Civil War. Their most galvanizing ideas, however, lived on, and their audacity has influenced countless political movements since. Their stories remain an inspiration for everyone who seeks to build a better world, for all who ask, \u003ci\u003eWhat should the future look like?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eParadise Now\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Uncommonly smart and beautifully written . . . a triumph of scholarship and narration: five stand-alone community studies and a coherent, often spellbinding history of the United States during its tumultuous first half-century . . . Although never less than evenhanded, and sometimes deliciously wry, Jennings writes with obvious affection for his subjects. To read \u003ci\u003eParadise Now\u003c\/i\u003e is to be dazzled, humbled and occasionally flabbergasted by the amount of energy and talent sacrificed at utopia's altar.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Writing an impartial, respectful account of these philanthropies and follies is no small task, but Mr. Jennings largely pulls it off with insight and aplomb. Indulgently sympathetic to the utopian impulse in general, he tells a good story. His explanations of the various reformist credos are patient, thought-provoking and . . . entertaining.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"As a tour guide, Jennings is thoughtful, engaging and witty in the right doses. . . . He makes the subject his own with fresh eyes and a crisp narrative, rich with detail. . . . In the end, Jennings writes, the communards' disregard for the world as it exists sealed their fate. But in revisiting their stories, he makes a compelling case that our present-day 'deficit of imagination' could be similarly fated.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0812983890\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780812983890\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Jennings, Chris\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Random House Group\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Random House Group","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Aug 2017)","offer_id":46099820413125,"sku":"9780812983890","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780812983890.jpg?v=1776645612"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/collections\/political-science-utopias.oembed","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}