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Lost Utopias
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Author : Richard Pare
language : en
Publisher: Black Dog Press
Release Date : 2016
Lost Utopias written by Richard Pare and has been published by Black Dog Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Exhibitions categories.
"The pictures in this book bring the argument about reuse and preservation into focus. What is worthy of retaining and what is dispensable? What are the criteria for considering whether a structure should be retained or demolished? How do you define the parameters of taste and utility in making decisions to preserve or destroy? How will future generations regard the destruction of certain structures, will we be considered cultural vandals for not having retained more of the structures that seemed irrelevant at the time? The preservation argument is heightened in the case of the exhibitions sites, as by definition an exhibition is considered a temporary event."--Page 9.
Lost Utopias
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Author : Harriet Ellen O'Brien
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
Lost Utopias written by Harriet Ellen O'Brien and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with Fruitlands (Harvard, Mass.) categories.
Lost Utopias
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Author : Harriet E. O'Brien
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10
Lost Utopias written by Harriet E. O'Brien and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with categories.
This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.
Lost Utopias A Brief Description Of Three Quests For Happiness Alcott S Fruitlands Old Shaker House And American Indian Museum Rescued From Oblivion Recorded And Preserved By Clara Endicott Sears On Prospect Hill In The Old Township Of Harvard
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Author : Harriet Ellen O'Brien
language : en
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Release Date : 2021-09-09
Lost Utopias A Brief Description Of Three Quests For Happiness Alcott S Fruitlands Old Shaker House And American Indian Museum Rescued From Oblivion Recorded And Preserved By Clara Endicott Sears On Prospect Hill In The Old Township Of Harvard written by Harriet Ellen O'Brien and has been published by Hassell Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-09 with categories.
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Lost Utopias A Brief Descroption Of Three Quests For Happiness Alcott S Fruitlands Old Shaker House And American Indian Museum Rescued From Oblivion
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Author : Harriet Ellen O'Brien
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
Lost Utopias A Brief Descroption Of Three Quests For Happiness Alcott S Fruitlands Old Shaker House And American Indian Museum Rescued From Oblivion written by Harriet Ellen O'Brien and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with Fruitlands (Harvard, Mass.) categories.
Cities Of The Gods
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Author : Doyne Dawson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1992-07-09
Cities Of The Gods written by Doyne Dawson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-07-09 with History categories.
Modern studies of classical utopian thought are usually restricted to the Republic and Laws of Plato, producing the impression that Greek speculation about ideal states was invariably authoritarian and hierarchical. This book, however, sets Plato in the context of the whole ancient tradition of philosophical utopia. It distinguishes two types of Greek utopia, relating both to the social and the political background of Greece between the fifth and third centuries B.C. There was a lower utopianism, meant for literal implementation, which arose from the Greek colonizing movement, and a higher theoretical form which arose from the practical utopias. Dawson focuses on the higher utopianism, whose main theme was total communism in property and family. He attempts to reconstruct the lost utopian works of the Stoics, arguing that their ideal state was universal and egalitarian, in deliberate contrast to the hierarchical and militaristic utopia of Plato; and that both theories were intended to bring about long-range social reform, though neither was meant for direct implementation. Dawson offers an explanation for the disappearance of the utopian tradition in the later Hellenistic age. A final chapter traces the survival of communistic ideas in early Christianity.
Retrotopia
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Author : Zygmunt Bauman
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2017-05-23
Retrotopia written by Zygmunt Bauman and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-23 with Social Science categories.
We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state—a state that Thomas More, writing five centuries ago, tied to a topos, a fixed place, a land, an island, a sovereign state under a wise and benevolent ruler. But while we have lost our faith in utopias of all hues, the human aspiration that made this vision so compelling has not died. Instead it is re-emerging today as a vision focused not on the future but on the past, not on a future-to-be-created but on an abandoned and undead past that we could call retrotopia. The emergence of retrotopia is interwoven with the deepening gulf between power and politics that is a defining feature of our contemporary liquid-modern world—the gulf between the ability to get things done and the capability of deciding what things need to be done, a capability once vested with the territorially sovereign state. This deepening gulf has rendered nation-states unable to deliver on their promises, giving rise to a widespread disenchantment with the idea that the future will improve the human condition and a mistrust in the ability of nation-states to make this happen. True to the utopian spirit, retrotopia derives its stimulus from the urge to rectify the failings of the present human condition—though now by resurrecting the failed and forgotten potentials of the past. Imagined aspects of the past, genuine or putative, serve as the main landmarks today in drawing the road-map to a better world. Having lost all faith in the idea of building an alternative society of the future, many turn instead to the grand ideas of the past, buried but not yet dead. Such is retrotopia, the contours of which are examined by Zygmunt Bauman in this sharp dissection of our contemporary romance with the past.
Utopia
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Author : Thomas More
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 1997-07-07
Utopia written by Thomas More and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-07-07 with Fiction categories.
First published in Latin in 1516, Utopia was the work of Sir Thomas More (1477–1535), the brilliant humanist, scholar, and churchman executed by Henry VIII for his refusal to accept the king as the supreme head of the Church of England. In this work, which gave its name to the whole genre of books and movements hypothesizing an ideal society, More envisioned a patriarchal island kingdom that practiced religious tolerance, in which everybody worked, no one has more than his fellows, all goods were community-owned, and violence, bloodshed, and vice nonexistent. Based to some extent on the writings of Plato and other earlier authors, Utopia nevertheless contained much that was original with More. In the nearly 500 years since the book's publication, there have been many attempts at establishing "Utopias" both in theory and in practice. All of them, however, seem to embody ideas already present in More's classic treatise: optimistic faith in human nature, emphasis on the environment and proper education, nostalgia for a lost innocence, and other positive elements. In this new, inexpensive edition, readers can study for themselves the essentials of More's utopian vision and how, although the ideal society he envisioned is still unrealized, at least some of his proposals have come to pass in today's world.
Utopia Drive
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Author : Erik Reece
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2016-08-09
Utopia Drive written by Erik Reece and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-09 with History categories.
For Erik Reece, life, at last, was good: he was newly married, gainfully employed, living in a creekside cabin in his beloved Kentucky woods. It sounded, as he describes it, "like a country song with a happy ending." And yet he was still haunted by a sense that the world--or, more specifically, his country--could be better. He couldn't ignore his conviction that, in fact, the good ol' USA was in the midst of great social, environmental, and political crises--that for the first time in our history, we were being swept into a future that had no future. Where did we--here, in the land of Jeffersonian optimism and better tomorrows--go wrong? Rather than despair, Reece turned to those who had dared to imagine radically different futures for America. What followed was a giant road trip and research adventure through the sites of America's utopian communities, both historical and contemporary, known and unknown, successful and catastrophic. What he uncovered was not just a series of lost histories and broken visionaries but also a continuing and vital but hidden idealistic tradition in American intellectual history. Utopia Drive is an important and definitive reconstruction of that tradition. It is also, perhaps, a new framework to help us find a genuinely sustainable way forward. " ... an engaging exploration -- and example -- of the fruitful tunnel-visions of dreamers turned doers." - Publishers Weekly
The Story Of Utopias
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Author : Lewis Mumford
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-06-12
The Story Of Utopias written by Lewis Mumford and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-12 with categories.
The Story of Utopias, written and edited in 1922, is a unique work, in which Lewis Mumford makes the analysis of historical utopias, based on the distinction between utopias of escape and utopias of reconstruction, including these most classic literary utopias, Plato Edward Bellamy, through Thomas More, Bacon, Campanella and others. Utopian way of life, every man enjoys the opportunity to be a man because no one has the possibility to be a monster. The main purpose of man is to grow up to the limit of the stature of its kind. Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad career as a writer.