Utopian Thought in the Western World

by Frank Edward Manuel, Fritzie Prigohzy Manuel

1979 · Harvard University Press

The authors have structured five centuries of utopian invention by identifying successive constellations, groups of thinkers joined by common social and moral concerns. Within this framework they analyze individual writings, in the context of the author's life and of the socio-economic, religious, and political exigencies of his time.