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Utopias
Howard P. Segal
其他書名
A Brief History from Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities
出版
John Wiley & Sons
, 2012-03-02
主題
Religion / General
ISBN
1118234316
9781118234310
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1gQS4Ma-l8wC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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