The Best Utopias Political Books 2025

1. News from Nowhere [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Written in 1890, at the close of William Morris's most intense period of political activism, News from Nowhereis a compelling articulation of his mature views on art, work, community, family, and the nature and structure of the ideal society. A utopian narrative of a future society, it is also an immensely entertaining novel. This Broadview edition includes a wide variety of contextualizing documents, including portions of Morris's essays, lectures, and journalism; excerpts from precursor utopian texts; writings on Bloody Sunday, art, work, and revolution; and contemporary reviews.

News from Nowhere, Used [Paperback]

2. A Vanished World, Used [Mass Market Paperback]

A personal portrait of a young American girl's rural childhood - including reminiscences of the Civil War and pioneering in the West. Renewed interest in wilderness, rural farm life, and the experiences of pioneer women has prompted the reissue of this work.

A Vanished World, Used [Mass Market Paperback]

3. Utopia [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. A new edition of the classic satirical commentary on the quest for the perfect society, attentively re-set according to the designs of the original Latin publication of 1516, Utopia is the story of the traveller-philosopher Raphael Hythloday: discoverer of the crescent-moon island during the course of his travels in the New World with Amerigo Vespucci; who in a series of discourses expounds at length on the peculiarities unique to the political, social, and religious climate of the Utopian nation, C.

Utopia, Used [Paperback]

4. The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia, Used [Paperback]

In the mid twentieth century the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously asserted that games are indefinable; there are no common threads that link them all. "Nonsense," says the sensible Bernard Suits: "playing a game is a voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles." The short book Suits wrote demonstrating precisely that is as playful as it is insightful, as stimulating as it is delightful. Suits not only argues that games can be meaningfully defined; he also suggests that playing games is a central part of the ideal of human existence, so games belong at the heart of any vision of Utopia. Originally published in 1978, The Grasshopper is now re-issued with a new introduction by Thomas Hurka and with additional material (much of it previously unpublished) by the author, in which he expands on the ideas put forward in The Grasshopper and answers some questions that have been raised by critics.

The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia, Used [Paperback]

5. Utopia, Used [Paperback]

An unabridged, unaltered edition with introduction -

Utopi, Used [Paperback]

6. Angel in the Forest: A Fariy Tale of Two Utopias, Used [Paperback]

This is the first paperback edition of Marguerite Young's fascinating chronicle of two attempts to establish utopian communities in nineteenth-century America.'"Angel in the Forest" recounts the strange tale of New Harmony, Indiana. The original community was founded in 1814 by the German mystic Father George Rapp, who, with a group of English immigrants, implemented his own theories for a perfect community, this time based on rationalism. Both experiments failed, but Young finds in both a distinctively American yearning for utopia, which continues to characterize the American spirit to this day: a tradition of faith and folly can be traced from Owen's New Moral World to George Bush's New World Order. Written with the same elegance, wit, and lyric beauty that distinguishes her fiction, ?"Angel in the Forest"?was widely praised upon its first publication in 1945. This edition includes Mark Van Doren's introduction to Scribner's 1966 reprint.

Angel in the Forest : A Fariy Tale of Two Utopias, Used [Paperback]

7. Utopie, Used [Paperback]

Utopie is a German language textbook for classroom use. The theme relates to the Renaissance and is intended for students in grades 7 and 8. The narrative is based on Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516) and each chapter touches on some thought-provoking issue such as crime and punishment, wealth and poverty, etc. Includes a wide variety of exercises, questions on the text, and punctuation and grammar exercises for those with relevant experience.

Utopie, Used [Paperback]

8. Love Valley: An American Utopia, Used [Paperback]

Love Valley is a small town in rural North Carolina. Its genesis in 1954 marked the fulfillment of a dream for founder Andy Barker. Barker cultivated two visions as a young man he wanted to build a Christian community, and he wanted to be a cowboy. The result of his vision is Barker s utopian experiment. The town boasts a saloon, general store, hitching posts, and rodeos. Yet, above all of this stands a little church the heart of what Barker conceived as his Christian utopia. This unique combination has led to more than forty years of philanthropic ventures, controversial events such as the Love Valley Rock Festival, stories and legends, and political ambition. Love Valley: An American Utopia captures the history of this town in narrative form while arguing that Love Valley s founders were motivated by utopian goals."

Love Valley : An American Utopia, Used [Paperback]

9. Utopian Communities of Florida: A History of Hope, Used [Paperback]

Florida has long been viewed as a land of hope and endless possibilities. Visionaries seeking to establish new communities where they could escape the influences of society at large have turned to Florida to construct their utopias--from the vast plantations of British philanthropists and entrepreneurs in the eighteenth century to the more exotic Koreshan Unity and its theory that humans live in the center of a Hollow Earth. Some came to the Sunshine State seeking religious freedom, such as the settlers in Moses Levy's Jewish colony, while others settled in Florida to establish alternative lifestyles, like the spiritualists of Cassadaga. Still others created their communities to practice new agricultural techniques or political philosophies. Historians Joe Knetsch and Nick Wynne examine a number of these distinctive utopian communities and how they have contributed to Florida's unique social fabric.

Utopian Communities of Florida : A History of Hope, Used [Paperback]

10. The Philosophy of Utopia, Used [Paperback]

This collection addresses the important function of utopianism in social and political philosophy and includes debate on what its future role will be in a period dominated by dystopian nightmare scenarios.

The Philosophy of Utopia, Used [Paperback]