The Utopian Dilemma in the Western Political Imagination (Paperback, 1)

Introduction: Imagining a World Without Heroes

1/ The Hero and the City: Homer to Diogenes

2/ Thomas More’s Imaginary Kingdom

3/ Francis Bacon and the Heroism of the Age

4/ Jonathan Swift and Utopian Madness

5/ Voltaire’s Garden Retreat

6/ Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Land of Chimaeras

7/ Adam Smith and the Utopia of Commercial Society

8/ Karl Marx and the Heroic Revolution

9/ Fyodor Dostoevsky and the Ungrateful Biped

10/ Edward Bellamy’s Invisible Army

11/ William Morris and the Taming of Art

12/ H. G. Wells and the Samurai

13/ Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Mothers’ Utopia

14/ Yevgeny Zamyatin and the Scythian Horde

15/ Aldous Huxley and the Rebels Against Happiness

16/ George Orwell’s Dystopian Socialism

17/ B. F. Skinner’s World Without Heroes

18/ Anthony Burgess and the Revenge of the Dandy

Conclusion