Perfection and progress : two modes of Utopian thought
1974, 1st edition. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #417957
Physical description; 219 pp.; 24 cm. Contents; The Republic of Plato -- From Plato to the Renaissance: A Historical Overview -- The Utopia of Thomas More -- The Christianopolis of Johann Valentin Andreae -- The Changing Nature of Utopian Assumptions -- Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and Equality -- H.G. Wells' A Modern Utopia -- William Dean Howells' A Traveller from Altruria and Through the Eye of the Needle. Subjects; Geschichte 1500-1910. Utopias History.
Price: €14.95