The Uses of Utopia
Travels to the Limits of Thought
$50.70
- Hardcover
336 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2026
Summary
A beguiling tour of utopian ideas and the pursuit of thinking differently
Utopia is not somewhere you can go. But neither is it an idle fantasy. It runs through history and literature from Plato to Thomas More, Margaret Cavendish to Ursula Le Guin. Utopia, this book shows, was for them a tool for exploring the horizons of thought, asking the unaskable and challenging entrenched assumptions about how society has to be.
The Uses of Utopia travels not only to the remote islands, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241761083 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241761085 |
| Author: | Joad Raymond Wren |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Allen Lane |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 532g |
| Dimensions: | 242mm x 164mm x 31mm |
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Critics Review
Richly diverting intellectual history – Steven Poole * Guardian *
Scintillating … the book rises up as a monument against our age of short-termism – Stuart Jeffries * Spectator *
About The Author
Joad Raymond Wren
Joad Raymond Wren is a writer and historian who has taught at the universities of Oxford, Aberdeen, East Anglia, Paris-Sorbonne and Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of books about cheap print and news, angels and the role of the imagination in political thought, among them The Invention of the Newspaper, Milton’s Angels, The Great Exchange and the novel All the Colours You Cannot Name.
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