Individual and Utopia - A Multidisciplinary Study of Humanity and Perfection

Zusatztext 'This is a rich and innovative collection of essays! and is a very welcome addition to the ever-growing literature on utopia and utopianism. Through focusing on the neglected theme of the individual in utopia it is able to offer genuinely insightful contributions in areas as varied as architecture and technology! religion and politics! philosophy and literature.' Vincent Geoghegan! Queen's University Belfast! UK Informationen zum Autor Clint Jones is a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point! USA. He is the author of A Genealogy of Social Violence. Cameron Ellis earned his PhD in the Department of Cultural Studies at Trent University! Canada. Zusammenfassung A volume that moves away from the dominant, macro-level theorising on the subject of identity and its relationship to and with globalising trends, focusing instead on the individual's relationship with utopia so as to offer new interpretive approaches for engaging with and examining utopian individuality. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Individual and Utopia

Product details

• Authors: Cameron Ellis, Ellis Cameron, Clint Jones, Clint Ellis Jones, Jones Clint
• Assisted by: Cameron Ellis (Editor), Clint Jones (Editor)
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2015
• EAN: 9781472428943
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-2894-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, Social Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory