Utopias / Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion (ePub)
A Brief History from Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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...
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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
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
Autoren-Porträt von Howard P. Segal
Howard P. Segal is Bird Professor of History at the University of Maine, where he has taught since 1986. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University. His previous books include Technological Utopianism in American Culture (1985), Future Imperfect: The Mixed Blessings of Technology in America (1994), Technology in America: A Brief History (1989, 1999, with Alan Marcus), and Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford's Village Industries (2005). He also reviews for, among other publications, Nature and the Times Higher Education.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Howard P. Segal
- 2012, 224 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 1118234405
- ISBN-13: 9781118234402
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.03.2012
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