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Apr 25, 2024
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HIST 325 - Utopia and Dystopia4 credits
This seminar will explore the utopian and dystopian traditions in literature, philosophy, and politics. We will analyze some blueprints for a better world and compare them with some visions of a nightmare society. We will also consider why utopias, when put into practice, often degenerate into dystopian tyrannies. Readings will be drawn from Plato, Sir Thomas More, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Federalist Papers, Karl Marx, William Morris, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, B. F. Skinner, and Azar Nafisi. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Writing Intensive
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