Cities at the End of the World Using Utopian and Dystopian Stories to Reflect Critically on our Political Beliefs, Communities, and Ways of Life

by Lorenzo, David J.

• ISBN13: 9781441141552
• ISBN10: 1441141553
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-05-08
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This book undertakes a critical examination of contemporary political problems through discussions of three utopian and three dystopian texts.

Selected stories from Morris, Orwell, More, Bellamy, Neville, and Zamyatin are used to generate questions about fundamental economic, political, and social problems, human nature, and conceptions of the good life. This unique work is an exceptional resource for all students of political philosophy and utopian literature, as well as for general readers interested in political affairs.

Author Biography

David J. Lorenzo is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Diplomacy, National Chengchi University, Taiwan (ROC) and Batten Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Wesleyan College, US. He is the author of Tradition and the Rhetoric of Right (1999).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Utopia (Thomas More)
3. Isle of Pines (Henry Neville)
4. Looking Backward (Edward Bellamy)
5. News from Nowehere (William Morris)
6. We (Evgeni Zamyatin)
7. Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
8. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index