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6. Heaven on Earth for the Common Man

  • Frank E. Manuel and Fritzie P. Manuel
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Utopian Thought in the Western World
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© 2022 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

© 2022 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Preface v
  3. Contents vii
  4. INTRODUCTION. The Utopian Propensity 1
  5. PART I. The Ancient and Medieval Wellsprings
  6. 1. Paradise and the Millennium 33
  7. 2. The Golden Age of Kronos 64
  8. 3. The Great Transmission 93
  9. PART II. The Birth of Utopia
  10. 4. The Passion of Thomas More 117
  11. 5. A Città Felice for Architects and Philosophers 150
  12. 6. Heaven on Earth for the Common Man 181
  13. PART III. Flowering and Death of the Christian Utopia
  14. 7. Pansophia: A Dream of Science 205
  15. 8. Bruno, the Magus of Nola 222
  16. 9. Bacon, Trumpeter of New Atlantis IO. Campanella's City of the Sun 243
  17. 10. Campanella’s City of the Sun 261
  18. 11. Andreae, Pastor of Christianopolis 289
  19. 12. Comenius and His Disciples 309
  20. 13. Topsy-Turvy in the English Civil War 332
  21. 14. The Sun King and His Enemies 367
  22. I 5. Leibniz: The Swan Song of the Christian Republic 392
  23. PART IV. Eupsychias of the Enlightenment
  24. 16. The Philosophes’s Dilemma 413
  25. 17. The Monde Idéal of Jean-Jacques 436
  26. 18. Freedom from the Wheel 453
  27. 19. Turgot on the Future of Mind 461
  28. 20. Condorcet: Progression to Elysium 487
  29. 21. Kant: Beyond Animality 519
  30. PART V. A Revolutionary Diptych
  31. 22. New Faces of Love 535
  32. 23. Equality or Death 556
  33. PART VI. The Union of Labor and Love
  34. 24. The Battle of the Systems 581
  35. 25. Saint-Simon: The Pear Is Ripe 590
  36. 26. Children of Saint-Simon: The Triumph of Love 615
  37. 27. Fourier: The Burgeoning of Instinct 641
  38. 28. Owen’s New Moral World 676
  39. PART VII. Marx and Counter-Marx
  40. 29. Marx and Engels in the Landscape of Utopia 697
  41. 30. Comte, High Priest of the Positivist Church 717
  42. 31. Anarchy and the Heroic Proletariat 735
  43. PART VIII. The Twilight of Utopia
  44. 32. Utopia Victoriana 759
  45. 33. Darwinism, the Ambiguous Intruder 773
  46. 34. Freudo-Marxism, a Hybrid for the Times 788
  47. EPILOGUE. The Utopian Prospect 801
  48. Notes 817
  49. Selected Bibliography 869
  50. Index 877
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674040564-008

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Preface v
  3. Contents vii
  4. INTRODUCTION. The Utopian Propensity 1
  5. PART I. The Ancient and Medieval Wellsprings
  6. 1. Paradise and the Millennium 33
  7. 2. The Golden Age of Kronos 64
  8. 3. The Great Transmission 93
  9. PART II. The Birth of Utopia
  10. 4. The Passion of Thomas More 117
  11. 5. A Città Felice for Architects and Philosophers 150
  12. 6. Heaven on Earth for the Common Man 181
  13. PART III. Flowering and Death of the Christian Utopia
  14. 7. Pansophia: A Dream of Science 205
  15. 8. Bruno, the Magus of Nola 222
  16. 9. Bacon, Trumpeter of New Atlantis IO. Campanella's City of the Sun 243
  17. 10. Campanella’s City of the Sun 261
  18. 11. Andreae, Pastor of Christianopolis 289
  19. 12. Comenius and His Disciples 309
  20. 13. Topsy-Turvy in the English Civil War 332
  21. 14. The Sun King and His Enemies 367
  22. I 5. Leibniz: The Swan Song of the Christian Republic 392
  23. PART IV. Eupsychias of the Enlightenment
  24. 16. The Philosophes’s Dilemma 413
  25. 17. The Monde Idéal of Jean-Jacques 436
  26. 18. Freedom from the Wheel 453
  27. 19. Turgot on the Future of Mind 461
  28. 20. Condorcet: Progression to Elysium 487
  29. 21. Kant: Beyond Animality 519
  30. PART V. A Revolutionary Diptych
  31. 22. New Faces of Love 535
  32. 23. Equality or Death 556
  33. PART VI. The Union of Labor and Love
  34. 24. The Battle of the Systems 581
  35. 25. Saint-Simon: The Pear Is Ripe 590
  36. 26. Children of Saint-Simon: The Triumph of Love 615
  37. 27. Fourier: The Burgeoning of Instinct 641
  38. 28. Owen’s New Moral World 676
  39. PART VII. Marx and Counter-Marx
  40. 29. Marx and Engels in the Landscape of Utopia 697
  41. 30. Comte, High Priest of the Positivist Church 717
  42. 31. Anarchy and the Heroic Proletariat 735
  43. PART VIII. The Twilight of Utopia
  44. 32. Utopia Victoriana 759
  45. 33. Darwinism, the Ambiguous Intruder 773
  46. 34. Freudo-Marxism, a Hybrid for the Times 788
  47. EPILOGUE. The Utopian Prospect 801
  48. Notes 817
  49. Selected Bibliography 869
  50. Index 877
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