Introduction: The Utopian Propensity

PART I: The Ancient and Medieval Wellsprings

Paradise and the Millennium
The Golden Age of Kronos
The Great Transmission

PART II: The Birth of Utopia

The Passion of Thomas More
A Città Felice for Architects and Philosophers
Heaven on Earth for the Common Man

PART III: Flowering and Death of the Christian Utopia

Pansophia: A Dream of Science
Bruno, the Magus of Nola
Bacon, Trumpeter of New Atlantis
Campanella's City of the Sun
Andreae, Pastor of Christianopolis
Comenius and His Disciples
Topsy-Turvy in the English Civil War
The Sun King and His Enemies
Leibniz: The Swan Song of the Christian Republic

PART IV: Eupsychias of the Enlightenment

The Philosophes's Dilemma
The Monde Ideal of Jean-Jacques
Freedom from the Wheel
Turgot on the Future of Mind
Condorcet: Progression to Elysium
Kant: Beyond Animality

PART V: A Revolutionary Diptych

New Faces of Love
Equality or Death

PART VI: The Union of Labor and Love

The Battle of the Systems
Saint-Simon: The Pear Is Ripe
Children of Saint-Simon: The Triumph of Love
Fourier: The Burgeoning of Instinct
Owen's New Moral World

PART VII: Marx and Counter-Marx

Marx and Engels in the Landscape of Utopia
Comte, High Priest of the Positivist Church
Anarchy and the Heroic Proletariat

PART VIII: The Twilight of Utopia

Utopia Victoriana
Darwinism, the Ambiguous Intruder
Freudo-Marxism, a Hybrid for the Times

EPILOGUE: The Utopian Prospect

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Frank E. Manuel is Kenan Professor, Emeritus, New York University, and Alfred and Viola Hart University Professor, Emeritus, Brandeis University.

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