Utopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing 1516-1700While great interest has been shown recently in the nature of utopian thought and its significance in western development, much of the discussion has been marked by imprecision and generality. This book opens with an attempt to give clarity, substance and precision to the definition of utopia by isolating its characteristics in contrast with those of other forms of ideal society. The value of these distinctions is shown in a detailed re-examination of the sixteenth-century European writers who developed the re-emergent form of utopia. As a whole, the book brings the discussion of utopian thought closer to the mainstream concerns of the history of political ideas, and provides a major study for all those working in the fields of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century political and social thought. |
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Contents
Utopia and the ideal society in search of a definition | 11 |
The reemergence of utopia Sir Thomas More | 41 |
The reemergence of utopia the European experience 15211619 | 63 |
Robert Burton and the anatomy of utopia | 85 |
Sir Francis Bacon and the ideal society | 105 |
Samuel Gotts New Jerusalem | 139 |
Gerrard Winstanley and the Restoration of True Magistracy | 169 |
James Harringtons Oceana | 205 |
The Harringtonians | 241 |
Royalism and utopia | 277 |
The fullemployment utopia of seventeenth century England | 299 |
Conclusion | 369 |
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