More or Less: Utopia as a Meditation on Human Nature
Introduction Even a perfunctory read of Utopia is likely to give one pause. Included in More’s “truly golden handbook” are incongruities too glaring to escape notice—incongruities between…
On Technological Utopianism
I propose an inquiry into what Hans Jonas once called the “built-in, automatic utopianism” of our thought and actions. Jonas suggests that this “utopian drift” inheres in…
Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction
Anti-utopian fiction has recently gripped the American imagination. Books such as The Hunger Games and the Divergent series have sold millions of copies and the movies based…
Review of Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction
Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction. Nivedita Bagchi. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. In Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction,…