Journey Through Utopia

Description

Journey through Utopia is a richly detailed and critically compelling

examination of utopian literature, beginning with Plato''s Republic and

continuing through to Huxley''s Brave New World. Utopias have been penned

with diverse intentions: some as pictures of an ideal society, some as

blueprints for action, some, especially in times of severe censorship, as

covert criticisms of existing conditions. Marie Louise Berneri exposes the

dark shadow that lingers above most utopian works by emphasizing the

intolerant and authoritarian nature of these visions, warning of the doom

that awaits those foolish enough to put their trust in an ordered and

regimented world. Journey through Utopia is a necessary companion, and in

many cases an antidote, to imagined fictions from antiquity to the present.