1  Series title

      2  Title page

      3  Copyright page

      4  Acknowledgments

      5  Introduction

      6  1 What is Utopia? What is Utopian Political Thought? Homo utopicus: The Mindset of the Utopian Animal Defining Utopia/Utopianism Types of Utopia Defining Utopian Political Thought Utopia and Politics Are Utopia and Utopian Political Thought Western Manifestations?

      7  2 Utopianism before Utopia Sparta as Utopian Myth/Model Plato’s Republic: The Great Thought Experiment The Problem of Total Commitment The Bible as Utopian and Dystopian Inspiration

      8  3 Inventing Utopia Utopia as Critique The Just Society Religion and Politics in Utopia More’s Utopia as Political Thought

      9  4 Utopia and the Age of Revolution Utopian Dreaming in the English Revolution Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers James Harrington’s Immortal Commonwealth The American Revolution and Thomas Paine Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the French Revolution The Problem of Utopia and Revolution

      10  5 Utopia and Modernity Varieties of Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Utopian Thought Bellamy’s Disciplined Utopia Morris’s Pastoral Utopia Wells’s Platonic Utopia Gilman’s Feminist Utopia Twentieth-Century Variants on the Theme Utopia as a Process Toward Dystopia

      11  6 Utopia and/as Ideology Marx/Marxism as Utopian Ernst Bloch: Hope and Dreams Libertarianism as Utopian Ideology Designing Libertarian Utopia Utopia as Liberation Whither Utopian Thought?

      12  7 From Utopia to Dystopia Dystopian Themes: Freedom/Isolation/Hidden Evil Zamyatin’s Machine State Huxley and Inhuman Stability Orwell and the Nihilism of Power Atwood and Dystopian Isolation The Dystopian Post-human The Anthropocene as Dystopia The Necessity of Dystopian Political Thought

      13  8 Does Utopia Have a Future? The Status of Utopia The Future of Utopian Theory What is to be done?

      14  References

      15  Index

      16  End User License Agreement

      1  Cover

      2  Contents

      3  1 What is Utopia? What is Utopian Political Thought?