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ISBN 0-285-64723-7 (UK pbk)
non-fiction, essays, utopia, sociology, world issues
Edited by Frank E.Manuel. From a symposium arranged by Daedalus and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
"Utopia, The City and The Machine" by Lewis Mumford,
"Varieties of Literary Utopias" by Northrop Frye,
"Utopia and Democracy" by Crane Brinton,
"Toward a Psychological History of Utopias" by Frank E.Manuel,
"The Political Theory of Utopia: From Melancholy to Nostalgia" by Judith Shklar,
"Socialism and Utopia" by Adam Ulam,
"Utopia and the Living Landscape" by Paul B.Sears,
"Eugenics and Utopia" by John Maynard Smith,
"Communications Technology and the Future" by John R.Pierce,
"The Experimental Utopia in America" by Maren Lockwood,
"The Utility of Utopias for Reformers" by François Bloch-Lainé,
"Utopia for Practical Purposes" by Bertrand de Jouvenel,
"Utopia and the Good Life" by George Kateb,
"Paradise and Utopia: Mythical Geography and Eschatology" by Mircea Eliade,
"Utopia and Cultural Renewal" by Frederik L.Polak,
"Critique and Justification of Utopia" by Paul Tillich,
Notes on Contributors.
"Utopia has now been revisited by a glittering research 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 thinking. 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 ).
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