Description for Retrotopia
Hardback. We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state a state that Thomas More, writing five centuries ago, tied to a topos, a fixed place, a land, an island, a sovereign state under a wise and benevolent ruler. Num Pages: 180 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 344.
We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state—a state that Thomas More, writing five centuries ago, tied to a topos, a fixed place, a land, an island, a sovereign state under a wise and benevolent ruler. But while we have lost our faith in utopias of all hues, the human aspiration that made this vision so compelling has not died. Instead it is re-emerging today as a vision focused not on the future but on the past, not on a future-to-be-created but on an abandoned and ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509515318
SKU
V9781509515318
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99-50
About Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds.
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