Utopias of the British Enlightenment (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) - Softcover

 
9780521455909: Utopias of the British Enlightenment (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521455901 ISBN 13: 9780521455909
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Synopsis

This collection of eighteenth-century British utopias shows how the image of the ideal society was used as a form of social criticism, particularly as a means of focusing on ideas of progress and commercial development. The texts chosen reveal important trends in the development of liberal rights theories, of proto-socialist concepts of property distribution, and of conservative notions of the ideal hierarchical community. The introduction examines their relationship to the key issues and developments in the political thought of the period.

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This is the first 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 focusing on ideas of progress and commercial development.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1994
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521455901
ISBN 13 
9780521455909
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
350
Editor
Claeys Gregory

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