This book provides both an introduction to utopianism and a general perspective on radical political thought. Vigorously disputing the widespread conviction that utopianism is a fantasy with no relevance to modern political life and thought, the authors argue that it is a concept whose special virtue lies in its capacity to transcend the limitations of present circumstances, to inspire alternative thinking and to open up new directions for political action. This book develops an approach which relates social causes to political theory and practice. The first part discusses utopianism as a form of political theory with unique characteristics and the ability to transcend the present. The second part considers utopianism as an expression of fundamental social impulses and as an ingredient of modern political movements. The third part offers a defence of utopianism as both theory and practice, and argues for its use to counteract the pragmatism and narrow empiricism which often passes for political «realism» in modern societies. This reissue of a popular and well-received landmark text contains a new preface.

The Politics of Utopia

Politics & Social Sciences

Barbara Goodwin

keith-taylor

Politics & Government

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Social Science and Utopia: Nineteenth-Century Models of Social Harmony

Social Sciences

Harvester Press

Using Political Ideas

Wiley Global Education UK

Grieving fifty-year-old Emma McDaniel steps onto a DC-3 in 1944 Los Angeles to fly to Washington, DC, to pick up her husband's remains. A strange turbulence, flashing lights and a vortex cloud cause Emma to hit her head on the ceiling and pass out. When she awakens the stewardess is different, the airplane is different. Shocked, she finds she's in the twenty-first century! Handsome, tall, fifty-two-year-old Thomas Wells is a captain for the airline Emma's flying on. From the moment they meet inflight there is an instant attraction, plus a strange connection. When Emma blurts out that she can't be in the year 2006, Tom is shocked but not for the usual reasons. Is there more to Tom than meets the eye? Why are neo-Nazis pursuing Tom and telling him to leave the past in the past? Why did Emma find a letter in a scrapbook about a secret mission by the OSS in 1944 where the airplane and its Army Air Forces pilots disappeared? Whose Army Air Forces uniform is hanging in Tom's closet?

Hearts Flight

Romance

Romantic Suspense

Cerridwen Press

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