Course Syllabus
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Lecture 1 Introduction to Visions of Utopia
Lecture 2 The Republic: Part 1
Lecture 3 The Republic: Part 2
Lecture 4 The Republic: Part 3
Lecture 5 Utopia: Part 1
Lecture 6 Utopia: Part 2
Lecture 7 New Atlantis
Lecture 8 The Social Contract: Part 1
Lecture 9 The Social Contract: Part 2
Lecture 10 Rousseau in Practice: Jacobins and Communal Utopians
Lecture 11 Marx: Part 1
Lecture 12 Marx: Part 2
Lecture 13 Walden Two
Lecture 14 Conclusion
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Course Overview
With the characteristically human abilities to reason and imagine comes, apparently inevitably, the longing for imaginary but
plausible places and conditions where everything is exactly as it
should be and all our needs and desires are satisfied, including
the need not to be jaded by satisfaction.
Professor Fred E. Baumann looks at what some philosophers
have had to say on this subject, mostly in the form of stories
about utopias. Five are written by great philosophers and the
last by a challenging, nearly contemporary American scholar. All
have exerted great influence on the history of thought or have
expressed influential currents of thought. Professor Baumann’s
lectures not only examine these texts, but also address the
results of attempting to put these utopias into practice.
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 Visions of Utopia: Philosophy and the Perfect Society (Booklet)
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Professor
Professor Fred E. Baumann
(Kenyon College)
Fred E. Baumann is the Harry M.
Clor Professor of Political Science at
Kenyon College, where he was the director of the Public Affairs Conference Center and part-time teacher of political science before entering the department full-time in 1986. He now teaches courses in the history of political...
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