02379namaa2200397uu 4500001001100000003000600011005001700017006001900034007001500053008004100068020001800109020001800127020001800145020001800163024003100181040001700212041000800229042000700237072001500244720002300259245006100282260002700343300002200370336002600392337002600418338003600444506005100480520112800531540006301659546001201722650004601734653004901780793001801829856011701847999001701964doab122048oapen20260305123952.0m     o  d        cr|mn|---annan231117s2023    xx |||||o     ||| 0|eng d  a9781003365945  a9781003365945  a9781032431574  a97810324315817 a10.4324/97810033659452doi  aoapencoapen0 aeng  adc 7aDS2bicssc1 aFarrell, John4aut00aThe Utopian Dilemma in the Western Political Imagination  bTaylor & Francisc2023  a1 online resource  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier0 aFree-to-readfUnrestricted online access2star  aIn this volume, John Farrell shows that political utopias-societies with laws and customs designed to short-circuit the foibles of human nature for the benefit of our collective existence-have a perennial opponent, the honor-based culture of aristocracy that dominated most of the world from ancient times into early modernity and whose status-based competitive psychology persists to the present day. While utopias aim at equality, the heroic imperative defends the need for personal and collective dignity. It asks the utopian, Do we really want to live in a world without struggle, without heroes, and without the stories they create? Because the utopian dilemma pits essential values against each other-equity versus freedom, dignity versus justice-few who confront it can simply take sides. Rather, the dilemma itself has been a generative stimulus for classic authors from Plato and Thomas More to George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. Farrell follows their struggles with the utopian dilemma and with each other, providing a deepened understanding of the moral and emotional dynamics of the western political imagination.  aAll rights reserveduhttp://oapen.org/content/about-rights  aEnglish 7aLiterature: history and criticism2bicssc  aUtopia, Dystopia, Dostoevsky, Huxley, Orwell0 aDOAB Library.40uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/12204870zFree-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication  c93100d93100