UID:
almafu_9960119238502883
Format:
1 online resource (xli, 305 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-84086-1
Series Statement:
Cambridge texts in the history of political thought
Content:
This is a major collection of eighteenth-century British utopias. Seven tracts, spanning the century, show how the image of the ideal society was used as a form of social criticism, and particularly as a means of focussing on ideas of progress and commercial development. Radical and republican thinking about property ownership, social equality, and commerce and luxury - of particular relevance to the critique of 'corruption' in this period - coexists with nostalgic and conservative notions of the ideal hierarchical community. The introduction, which examines the relationship of these tracts to the political thought of the period, shows how issues and developments of key importance, from the debate surrounding the French Revolution to the origins of Romanticism and early socialism, are illuminated by an understanding of the utopian tradition.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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The island of content: or, a new paradise discovered (1709) / Anon -- A description of New Athens in Terra Australis Incognita (1720) / Anon -- Idea of a perfect commonwealth (1752) / David Hume -- An account of the first settlement, laws, form of governement, and police of the Cessares, a people of South America (1764 / James Burgh -- Memoirs of planetes, or a sketch of the laws and manners of Makar (1795) / Thomas Northmore -- The commonwealth of reason (1795) / William Hodgson -- Bruce's voyage to Naples (1802) / Anon.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-45590-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-43084-4
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511840869
