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Article: Frederic Rouvillois, ed. L'utopie.(Book Review)
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- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 1998. 251 pages. 6.50 [euro].
THIS POCKET-SIZE, elegant, moderately priced and well-distributed book purports to be an introduction to utopia for a wide French readership. It consists of an introductory essay, a selection of 28 briefly introduced utopian texts, an appendix where the notions used in the introduction are defined, and a partially annotated bibliography. Most of the best-known utopian writers (such as Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella, Charles Fourier, Saint Simon, but not Robert Owen) are anthologized and the book also pays particular attention to utopias of the French Revolution (Louis-Antoine Cloots, Saint-Just, Condorcet, ...