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Earth Perfect?

Author : Annette Giesecke
Publisher : Artifice Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781907317750
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Earth Perfect? written by Annette Giesecke and published by Artifice Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth Perfect? Nature, Utopia and the Garden is an eclectic, yet rigorous reflection on the relationship--historical, present and future--between humanity and the garden. Through the lens of Utopian Studies--the interdisciplinary field that encompasses fictions all the way through to actual political projects, and urban ideals; in a nutshell, addressing the human natural drive towards the ideal--Earth Perfect? brings together a selection of inspiring essays, each contributed by foremost writers from the fields of architecture, history of art, classics, cultural studies, farming, geography, horticulture, landscape architecture, law, literature, philosophy, urban planning and the natural sciences. Through these joined voices, the garden emerges as a site of contestation and a repository for symbolic, spiritual, social, political and ecological meaning. Questions such as: "what is the role of the garden in defining humanity's ideal relationship with nature?" and "how should we garden in the face of catastrophic ecological decline?" are addressed through wideranging case studies, including ancient Roman Gardens in Pompeii, Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, the Gardens of Versailles, organic farming in New England and Bohemia's secret gardens, as well as landscape in contemporary architecture. Issues relating to the utopian garden are explored thematically rather than chronologically, and organised in six chapters: "Being in nature", "inscribing the garden", "green/house", "The garden politic", "economies of the garden" and "how then shall we garden?". each essay is both individual in scope and part of the wider discourse of the book as a whole, and each is lusciously illustrated, bringing to life the subject with diverse visual material ranging from photography to historical documents, maps and artworks.

Heavens on Earth

Author : Mark Holloway
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Heavens on Earth written by Mark Holloway and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 1966 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating accounts of the most important and typical American utopian communities include surveys of beliefs and daily life in Shaker, New Harmony, and Brook Farm; the Fourieristic phalanxes; and the Oneida settlements.

Earthly Utopias

Author : Yolanda Zappaterra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0711285896
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Earthly Utopias written by Yolanda Zappaterra and published by . This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthly Utopias is a visual tour of the best religious and spiritual gardens around the world.

Perfecting the Earth

Author : Charles William Wooldridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Perfecting the Earth written by Charles William Wooldridge and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Utopias

Author : Howard P. Segal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118234405
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Utopias written by Howard P. Segal and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief history connects the past and present of utopian thought, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, right up to present day visions of cyberspace communities and paradise. Explores the purpose of utopias, what they reveal about the societies who conceive them, and how utopias have changed over the centuries Unique in including both non-Western and Western visions of utopia Explores the many forms utopias have taken – prophecies and oratory, writings, political movements, world's fairs, physical communities – and also discusses high-tech and cyberspace visions for the first time The first book to analyze the implicitly utopian dimensions of reform crusades like Technocracy of the 1930s and Modernization Theory of the 1950s, and the laptop classroom initiatives of recent years

Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond

Author : Douglas A. Vakoch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000376354
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond written by Douglas A. Vakoch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught as we are in a grave climate crisis that seems more irreversible with every passing year, our literary portrayals of the future often feature the dystopian collapse of the world as we know it. Science fiction explores how we got here, while pointing toward a more hopeful path forward. From an ecofeminist perspective, a core cause of our current ecological catastrophe is the patriarchal domination of nature, playing out in parallel with the oppression of women. As an alternative to dystopian futures that seem increasingly inevitable, ecofeminist science fiction helps us conjure utopias that promote environmental sustainability based on more egalitarian human relationships. Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond: Feminist Ecocriticism of Science Fiction explores the fictional worlds of such canonical novelists as Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing, and Joan Slonczewski, as well as those of lesser-known science fiction writers, as they collectively probe humanity’s greatest existential threats. Contributors from five continents provide compelling analyses of far future dystopias on Earth that are all too easy to imagine becoming reality if humankind’s current trajectory continues, as well as provocative insights into science fiction utopias set on idyllic planets orbiting distant stars, which offer liberatory alternatives that might someday be actualized in the real world. By examining the links between the destruction of the environment and the domination of women, Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond provides the tools to counteract those intertwined oppressions, helping create a foundation for a truly habitable world.

The Palgrave Companion to North American Utopias

Author : J. Friesen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403982236
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Companion to North American Utopias written by J. Friesen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Palgrave Companion to North American Utopias is a fascinating virtual catalogue of utopian societies and communes from past to present. The authors assert that the formation of a utopian society is both possible and feasible and give examples of how to create one of our own.

Utopianism for a Dying Planet

Author : Gregory Claeys
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691236682
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Utopianism for a Dying Planet written by Gregory Claeys and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-12-10 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the utopian tradition offers answers to today’s environmental crises In the face of Earth’s environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won’t save our planet. A more radical approach is required, one that involves profound changes in individual and collective behavior. Utopianism for a Dying Planet examines the ways the expansive history of utopian thought, from its origins in ancient Sparta and ideas of the Golden Age through to today's thinkers, can offer moral and imaginative guidance in the face of catastrophe. The utopian tradition, which has been critical of conspicuous consumption and luxurious indulgence, might light a path to a society that emphasizes equality, sociability, and sustainability. Gregory Claeys unfolds his argument through a wide-ranging consideration of utopian literature, social theory, and intentional communities. He defends a realist definition of utopia, focusing on ideas of sociability and belonging as central to utopian narratives. He surveys the development of these themes during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before examining twentieth- and twenty-first-century debates about alternatives to consumerism. Claeys contends that the current global warming limit of 1.5C (2.7F) will result in cataclysm if there is no further reduction in the cap. In response, he offers a radical Green New Deal program, which combines ideas from the theory of sociability with proposals to withdraw from fossil fuels and cease reliance on unsustainable commodities. An urgent and comprehensive search for antidotes to our planet’s destruction, Utopianism for a Dying Planet asks for a revival of utopian ideas, not as an escape from reality, but as a powerful means of changing it.

The Individual and Utopia

Author : Clint Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317027582
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Individual and Utopia written by Clint Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to the idea of a perfect society is the idea that communities must be strong and bound together with shared ideologies. However, while this may be true, rarely are the individuals that comprise a community given primacy of place as central to a strong communal theory. This volume moves away from the dominant, current macro-level theorising on the subject of identity and its relationship to and with globalising trends, focusing instead on the individual’s relationship with utopia so as to offer new interpretive approaches for engaging with and examining utopian individuality. Interdisciplinary in scope and bringing together work from around the world, The Individual and Utopia enquires after the nature of the utopian as citizen, demonstrating the inherent value of making the individual central to utopian theorizing and highlighting the methodologies necessary for examining the utopian individual. The various approaches employed reveal what it is to be an individual yoked by the idea of citizenship and challenge the ways that we have traditionally been taught to think of the individual as citizen. As such, it will appeal to scholars with interests in social theory, philosophy, literature, cultural studies, architecture, and feminist thought, whose work intersects with political thought, utopian theorizing, or the study of humanity or human nature.

Utopia

Author : Thomas More
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Utopia written by Thomas More and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-03 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.

America's Spiritual Utopias

Author : David Yount
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0313353484
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book America's Spiritual Utopias written by David Yount and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2008-05-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cloister the keys of the kingdom -- The Puritans building a city on a hill -- The Quakers -- The power of friendly persuasion -- The Amish return to paradise -- The Shakers -- Sharing simple gifts -- The Mormons -- To the Promised Land -- The Oneida Experiment -- Love one another -- The Salvation Army -- Saving body, soul, and spirit -- The Catholic Worker Movement -- The virtue of hospitality -- Today's utopias -- A place just right

Utopia's Doom

Author : P. VandenBroeck
Publisher : Art & Religion
ISBN 13 : 9789042934689
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Utopia's Doom written by P. VandenBroeck and published by Art & Religion. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The so-called Garden of Delights by Jheronimus Bosch (c. 1450-1516), now located in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, was painted over half a millennium ago yet remains an absolutely iconic work in European art history. The highly complex and enigmatic image has frequently been interpreted as a paradisaical utopia, in which people indulge playfully in erotic pleasure in harmony with nature. It is a visual utopia framed before Thomas More had actually coined the word in a book whose entirely unfrivolous blueprint for society could hardly differ more from Bosch's phantasm. More traditional art historians have identified Bosch's masterpiece as a painted warning against the sins of the body, more specifically that of 'lust', citing the image of Hell in the right wing in support. Paul Vandenbroeck argues that these two interpretations need not preclude one another: Bosch painted a phantasmagorical false paradise that leads inexorably to ruin. He drew his inspiration from folk ideas about a semi-earthly, semi-supernatural erotic paradise or Grail, in which those who entered could live in a dream-world of unbridled pleasure. But only until Judgement Day, upon which they would all wind up in Hell. As far as 'right-thinking' town-dwellers were concerned from their vantage point within a 'bourgeois civilizing offensive', belief in such an existence was dangerous, if not diabolical nonsense - tantamount to the 'Cult of Adam' and the indiscriminate sexual promiscuity of the late-medieval Sect of the Free Spirit. In large swathes of countryside throughout Europe, however, people were familiar with 'ecstatics', those 'born with the caul', who were able to access this other world. Bosch's magisterial work is simultaneously a reflection on the first and last times, on passions and moral norms, human beings and Nature. A Nature which, although also part of God's creation, was permeated with malevolent and highly dangerous sexual urges, which human beings were required to keep in check. For whom did Bosch paint this enormous triptych? Since the discoveries of Prof. J.K. Steppe of Leuven University, art historians have tended to identify the patron as Henry III of Nassau or, more recently, his uncle, Engelbert II. This book presents an unexpected alternative hypothesis.

Utopias

Author : Howard P. Segal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118234316
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Utopias written by Howard P. Segal and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief history connects the past and present of utopianthought, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, right up topresent day visions of cyberspace communities and paradise. Explores the purpose of utopias, what they reveal about thesocieties who conceive them, and how utopias have changed over thecenturies Unique in including both non-Western and Western visions ofutopia Explores the many forms utopias have taken – propheciesand oratory, writings, political movements, world's fairs, physicalcommunities – and also discusses high-tech and cyberspacevisions for the first time The first book to analyze the implicitly utopian dimensions ofreform crusades like Technocracy of the 1930s and ModernizationTheory of the 1950s, and the laptop classroom initiatives of recentyears

A Modern Utopia

Author : by H. G. Wells
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1433098482
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book A Modern Utopia written by by H. G. Wells and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Routledge Library Editions: Utopias

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100051885X
Total Pages : 1789 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Utopias written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 1789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routledge Library Editions: Utopias (6 volume set) contains titles, originally published between 1923 and 1982. It includes volumes focusing on Utopian fiction, both as a genre in its own right and also from a feminist perspective. In addition, there are sociological texts that examine the history of Utopian thought, from the writings of Plato and beyond, as well as specific examples of people who have tried to create Utopian communities.

English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700

Author : Alexandra Verini
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031009177
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700 written by Alexandra Verini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood uncovers a tradition of women’s utopianism that extends back to medieval women’s monasticism, overturning accounts of utopia that trace its origins solely to Thomas More. As enclosed spaces in which women wielded authority that was unavailable to them in the outside world, medieval and early modern convents were self-consciously engaged in reworking pre-existing cultural heritage to project desired proto-feminist futures. The utopianism developed within the English convent percolated outwards to unenclosed women's spiritual communities such as Mary Ward's Institute of the Blessed Virgin and the Ferrar family at Little Gidding. Convent-based utopianism further acted as an unrecognized influence on the first English women’s literary utopias by authors such as Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell. Collectively, these female communities forged a mode of utopia that drew on the past to imagine new possibilities for themselves as well as for their larger religious and political communities. Tracking utopianism from the convent to the literary page over a period of 300 years, New Kingdoms writes a new history of medieval and early modern women’s intellectual work and expands the concept of utopia itself.

Black Utopias

Author : Jayna Brown
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478021233
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Black Utopias written by Jayna Brown and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Black Utopias Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as a way of exploring alternative states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Musical, literary, and mystic practices become utopian enclaves in which Black people engage in modes of creative worldmaking. Brown explores the lives and work of Black women mystics Sojourner Truth and Rebecca Cox Jackson, musicians Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra, and the work of speculative fiction writers Samuel Delany and Octavia Butler as they decenter and destabilize the human, radically refusing liberal humanist ideas of subjectivity and species. Brown demonstrates that engaging in utopian practices Black subjects imagine and manifest new genres of existence and forms of collectivity. For Brown, utopia consists of those moments in the here and now when those excluded from the category human jump into other onto-epistemological realms. Black people—untethered from the hope of rights, recognition, or redress—celebrate themselves as elements in a cosmic effluvium.