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Utopian Literature and Science

From the Scientific Revolution to Brave New World and Beyond

Patrick Parrinder

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Palgrave Macmillan UK img Link Publisher

Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Beschreibung

Scientific progress is usually seen as a precondition of modern utopias, but science and utopia are frequently at odds. Ranging from Galileo's observations with the telescope to current ideas of the post-human and the human-animal boundary, this study brings a fresh perspective to the paradoxes of utopian thinking since Plato.

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literature and science, warfare, science fiction, knowledge, Plato, Utopia, fiction, singular, post-human, English literature, Franz Kafka, scientific revolution, 20th-century literature, British and Irish Literature, 19th-century literature, dystopia