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Author:   John Farrell
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.594kg
ISBN:  

9781032431574

ISBN 10:   1032431571
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   31 March 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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John Farrell is the Waldo W. Neikirk Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College, where he has been teaching since 1990.

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