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Imperfect Ideal: Utopian and Dystopian Visions

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The selections in Imperfect Ideal: Utopian and Dystopian Visions illustrate the best and worst of what can happen when we attempt to mold the complex communities in which we live into our vision of a perfect state. All 23 selections in this anthology challenge readers to question how society should be structured and governed, as well as what kinds of communities are most conducive to human fulfillment, both privately and in the civic arena.

Table of Contents
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Ursula K. Le Guin

Utopia*
Thomas More

Utopia
Wislawa Szymborska

Iliad*
Homer

The Shield of Achilles
W. H. Auden

A Paradise Built in Hell*
Rebecca Solnit

Time
Riichi Yokomitsu

On the Cannibals
Michel de Montaigne

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Mencius*
Mencius

The Politics*
Aristotle

A Framework for Utopia
Robert Nozick

The City of God*
Augustine

The Jewish State*
Theodor Herzl

A New View of Society*
Robert Owen

The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Oscar Wilde

The Economic Basics of the Withering Away of the State
Vladimir Lenin

We
Yevgeny Zamyatin

The Machine Stops
E. M. Forster

Black Box
Jennifer Egan

Jon
George Saunders

Time Capsule Found on a Dead Planet
Margaret Atwood

Silent Spring*
Rachel Carson

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  • Publication Date: March 9, 2015
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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  • Print Length: 396 Pages
  • File Size: 3,219 KB

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