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Author : John Gray
Release : 2008-09-30
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Black Mass by : John Gray
Download or read book Black Mass written by John Gray. This book was released on 2008-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the decade that followed the end of the cold war, the world was lulled into a sense that a consumerist, globalized, peaceful future beckoned. The beginning of the twenty-first century has rudely disposed of such ideas—most obviously through 9/11and its aftermath. But just as damaging has been the rise in the West of a belief that a single model of political behavior will become a worldwide norm and that, if necessary, it will be enforced at gunpoint. In Black Mass, celebrated philosopher and critic John Gray explains how utopian ideals have taken on a dangerous significance in the hands of right-wing conservatives and religious zealots. He charts the history of utopianism, from the Reformation through the French Revolution and into the present. And most urgently, he describes how utopian politics have moved from the extremes of the political spectrum into mainstream politics, dominating the administrations of both George W. Bush and Tony Blair, and indeed coming to define the political center. Far from having shaken off discredited ideology, Gray suggests, we are more than ever in its clutches. Black Mass is a truly frightening and challenging work by one of Britain's leading political thinkers.
Author : Thomas More
Release : 2015-01-07
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Utopia In Plain and Simple English by : Thomas More
Download or read book Utopia In Plain and Simple English written by Thomas More. This book was released on 2015-01-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1516, Thomas More set out to show that paradise isn't always what it's cracked up to be. The book is a masterpiece that tackles complex themes of religion and social customs. The books language and tone can seem a bit archaic--until now. This book, the latest in the Plain and Simple English series, presents the novel in a way that's accessible for all readers.
Author : Thomas More
Release : 1999-01-15
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Utopia by : Thomas More
Download or read book Utopia written by Thomas More. This book was released on 1999-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wootton's translation brings out the liveliness of More's work and offers an accurate and reliable version of a masterpiece of social theory. His edition is further distinguished by the inclusion of a translation of Erasmus's 'The Sileni of Alcibiades,' a work very close in sentiment to Utopia, and one immensely influential in the sixteenth century. This attractive combination suits the edition especially well for use in Renaissance and Reformation courses as well as as for Western Civilization survey courses. Wootton’s Introduction simultaneously provides a remarkably useful guide to anyone’s first reading of More’s mysterious work and advances an original argument on the origins and purposes of Utopia which no one interested in sixteenth-century social theory will want to miss.
Author : H. G. Wells
Release : 2015-04-27
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis A Modern Utopia (Complete Edition) by : H. G. Wells
Download or read book A Modern Utopia (Complete Edition) written by H. G. Wells. This book was released on 2015-04-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "A Modern Utopia (Complete Edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. A Modern Utopia is presented as a tale told by a sketchily described character known only as the Owner of the Voice. This character "is not to be taken as the Voice of the ostensible author who fathers these pages," Wells warns. He is accompanied by another character known as "the botanist." Interspersed in the narrative are discursive remarks on various matters, creating what Wells called in his preface "a sort of shot-silk texture between philosophical discussion on the one hand and imaginative narrative on the other." Because of the complexity and sophistication of its narrative structure, H.G. Wells's A Modern Utopia has been called "not so much a modern as a postmodern utopia." The novel is best known for its notion that a voluntary order of nobility known as the Samurai could effectively rule a "kinetic and not static" world state so as to solve "the problem of combining progress with political stability."
