Modern Humanities Week 7:

Living in the Modern: Social Organization in the Modern Age

Rational Government

• Hobbes and the Social Contract

Modern Utopias and Dystopias

• Definitions of Utopia
• Resources on Alternative and Utopian Communities
• Utopias on the Internet
• Research on Place and Space: Utopias and Dystopias

Thomas More - Utopia

• Thomas More, Utopia (1516)
• Thomas More Website
• More's Utopia Images
• More's Utopia

Francis Bacon - New Atlantis

• New Atlantis text
• More vs. Bacon's Model Societies

Henri Claude de Saint-Simon

• Picture of Saint-Simon
• Saint-Simon, Letter from an Inhabitant of Geneva to His Contemporaries

Robert Owen

• Owen quotations
• Robert Owen Museum
• New Lanark Education - "rational infant" schools
• Owen, A New View of Society
• New Lanark - World Heritage Site
• Owen & Saint-Simon lecture

Charles Fourier

• Fourier and Utopianism
  • Céladonie - Harmonic Series
    • Relationship Modes
    • A Walk on the Triniverse
  • Fourier and Utopianism in the US
• Ripon, Wisconsin - City with Fourierist Foundations
  • article on Ripon & Fourier
• Oneida, NY
• Selections from Fourier's writings
• Fourier, from Theory of Social Organization, 1820
• Fourier lecture

Karl Marx

• Marx on Utopianism in the Communist Manifesto

20th Century and Future Utopianism and Dystopianism

• Metropolis
• Star Trek
• America in the 1930s
  • The Iconography of Hope: The 1939-40 World's Fair
• The Internet: Theories of Utopia and Dystopia
• The Kibbutz Movement
  • Martin Buber's Inconsistency
• Julius Nyerere and Ujamaa
  • Nyerere, Ujamaa: The Basis for African Socialism

Engineering Society: Brave New World

• General questions on Brave New World
• Questions on specific sections of Brave New World
• Brave New World Ch. 16-17
• Questions raised by Brave New World
  
  
• Brave New World? A Defense of Paradise Engineering
• Huxley, Brave New World
• Huxley Hotlinks
• Links to Topics in Brave New World
• Soma in Brave New World
• Who's Who in Brave New World

Other Modern Utopias, Dystopias, and Anti-Utopias

• Voltaire, Candide
• Henry David Thoreau, Walden
• B. F. Skinner, Walden Two
• George Orwell, 1984
• Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia
• Eugene Zamiatin, We
• Margaret Atwood, Handmaid's Tale
• Ayi Kwei Armah, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

Other Utopia Links

• Society for Utopian Studies
  • Links Page
• Utopian Philosophy