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Retrotopia

Paperback • 2017 • English

Retrotopia

By Zygmunt Bauman

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We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state a state that Thomas More, writing five centuries ago, tied to a topos, a fixed place, a land, an island, a sovereign state under a wise and benevolent ruler. But while we have lost our faith in utopias of all hues, the human aspiration that made this vision so compelling has not died. Instead it is re-emerging today as a vision focused not on the future but on the past, not on...Show more

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9781509515325

Publisher

Polity Press

Published year

2017

Language

English

Original title

Retrotopia

Format

Paperback

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