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Utopianism for a dying planet : life after consumerism

Title
Utopianism for a dying planet : life after consumerism / Greogry Claeys.
Author
Claeys, Gregory
Publication
  • Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022]
  • ©2022

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1 online resource.
Subject
  • Utopias
  • Utopian socialism
  • Environmentalism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description (note)
  • Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 04, 2022).
Contents
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Towards a Theory of Utopian Sociability -- 1 Redefining Utopianism for a Post- consumer society -- 2 The Mythical Background: remembering original equality -- 3 Theories of Realised Utopianism -- Part II Utopian Sociability in Fiction and Practice -- 4 The Varieties of Utopian Practice -- 5 Luxury, Sociability, and Progress in Literary Projections of Utopia: from Thomas more to the eighteenth century -- 6 The Triumph of Unsocial Sociability? luxury in the eighteenth century -- Part III Luxury and Sociability in Later Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Utopianism -- 7 The Later Eighteenth Century and the French Revolution -- 8 Simplicity and Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Utopianism -- Part IV Modern Consumerism and Its Opponents -- 9 Twentieth-Century Consumerism and the Utopian Response -- 10 Counterculture and Consumerism: The 1960s -- 11 Life after Consumerism: Utopianism in the age of sufficiency -- Conclusion: The Great Change: creating enhanced simplicity -- Afterword: Covid-19 and Sociability -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index -- A NOTE ON THE TYPE
ISBN
  • 9780691236698
  • 0691236690
OCLC
om2000556346
Author
Claeys, Gregory, author.
Title
Utopianism for a dying planet : life after consumerism / Greogry Claeys.
Publisher
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022]
Copyright Date
©2022
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Note
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 04, 2022).
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Available from home with a valid library card
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EBSCOhost
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Print version: Claeys, Gregory Utopianism for a Dying Planet Princeton : Princeton University Press,c2022 9780691170046
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