{"product_id":"journey-through-utopia-a-critical-examination-of-imagined-worlds-in-western-literature-9781629636467","title":"Journey Through Utopia: A Critical Examination of Imagined Worlds in Western Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJourney through Utopia\u003c\/em\u003e is a richly detailed and critically compelling examination of utopian literature, beginning with Plato's \u003cem\u003eRepublic\u003c\/em\u003e and continuing through to Huxley's \u003cem\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/em\u003e. Utopias have been penned with diverse intentions: some as pictures of an ideal society, some as blueprints for action, yet others, especially in times of severe censorship, as covert criticisms of existing conditions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarie Louise Berneri exposes the dark shadow that lingers above most utopian works by emphasising the intolerant and authoritarian nature of these visions, and she warns of the doom that awaits those foolish enough to put their trust in an ordered and regimented world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis new edition is framed with an Introduction from Matthew S. Adams that situates Berneri's work in the context of her life, and concludes with an Afterword from Rhiannon Firth that extends Berneri's analysis into contemporary utopias. \u003cem\u003eJourney through Utopia\u003c\/em\u003e is a necessary companion, and in many cases an antidote, to imagined fictions from antiquity to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarie Louise Berneri\u003c\/b\u003e (1918-1949) was an anarchist activist and author. She was involved with the short-lived publication \u003ci\u003eRevision\u003c\/i\u003e, with Luis Mercier Vega, and was a member of the group that edited \u003ci\u003eRevolt, War Commentary, \u003c\/i\u003eand the\u003ci\u003e Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e newspaper. She was a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eSpain and the World\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Woodcock \u003c\/b\u003e(1912-1995) was a Canadian writer of political biography and history, anarchist thinker, essayist, and literary critic. Some of his most enduring works include: \u003ci\u003eAnarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements; Gandhi; Dawn at the Darkest Hour: A Study of Aldous Huxley; Canada and Canadians; \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Crystal Spirit: A Biography of George Orwell.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthew S. Adams\u003c\/b\u003e is lecturer in Politics, History, and Communication at Loughborough University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eKropotkin, Read, and the Intellectual History of British Anarchism \u003c\/i\u003eand co-editor of \u003ci\u003eAnarchism, 1914-1918\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRhiannon Firth\u003c\/b\u003e is senior research officer in Sociology at the University of Essex. Her research interests include utopian political theory, anarchist social movements, prefigurative spatial practices, alternative epistemologies, and critical pedagogy. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eUtopian Politics: Citizenship and Practice, \u003c\/i\u003e which involved ethnographic research with several intentional communities, housing cooperatives, and autonomous social centres around the U.K. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKim Stanley Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e (born 1952) is a Californian through and through. He grew up in Orange County, surfed his way through UC San Diego (writing his doctoral thesis on Philip K. Dick), and now lives in Davis with two kids and a beautiful scientist wife. He spends several weeks a year above 11,500 feet in the high Sierras. Not surprisingly, he's a good friend of Gary Snyder.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50856177926418,"sku":"9781629636467","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_708de8aa-1c55-49df-bb55-748046b223fc.jpg?v=1737498292","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/journey-through-utopia-a-critical-examination-of-imagined-worlds-in-western-literature-9781629636467","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}