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Douglas Mao is Russ Family Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860–1960 and Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production (both Princeton).
A wide-ranging reevaluation of utopian literature and philosophy, from Plato to Chang-Rae Lee
Examining literary and philosophical writing about ideal societies from Greek antiquity...
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Joshua Kotin is associate professor of English at Princeton University and an affiliated faculty member in the university's Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
Utopias fail. Utopias of one do not. They are perfect worlds. Yet their success comes at a cost. They are radically singular-and thus exclusive and inimitable.
Utopias of One is a major new account of utopian writing. Joshua Kotin examines how eight writers-Henry David...
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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Gregory Claeys is professor emeritus of the history of political thought at the University of London. His many books include Marx and Marxism and Searching for Utopia. Twitter @GClaeysHistory
How the utopian tradition offers answers to today's environmental crises
In the face of Earth's environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won't save our planet. A more radical...
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