Utopias of the British Enlightenment
Edited by Gregory Claeys
This collection of eighteenth-century British utopias shows how the image of the ideal society was used as a form of social criticism, particularly as a means of focusing on ideas of progress and commercial development. The texts chosen reveal important trends in the development of liberal rights theories, of proto-socialist concepts of property distribution, and of conservative notions of the ideal hierarchical community. The introduction examines their relationship to the key issues and developments in the political thought of the period.
Tahun:
1994
Penerbit:
Cambridge University Press
Bahasa:
english
Halaman:
350
ISBN 10:
0521455901
ISBN 13:
9780521455909
Nama seri:
Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
File:
PDF, 4.79 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1994