The essays during this ebook discover features of this courting; a few think of their position within the debate bearing on human perfectibility, whereas others learn the increase of secularism. additional contributions replicate upon the obvious failure of the fashionable Communist utopia, word the new reappearance of apocalyptic issues in fiction and social concept, or draw at the contributions of feminism and ecology. As our century ends, it sounds as if utopia and the millennium are once again locked in an uneasy embrace.
With essays by means of Louis Marin, J. C. Davis, Louis James, Gregory Claeys, Krishan Kumar, Vita Fortunati, David Ayers, Jan Relf and John O'Neill.
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