THE RATIONALIST CRITIQUE OF UTOPIAN THINKING: ISLAND OF FOOLS AND OTHER ANTI-UTOPIAN CLASSICS
During 17th-18th centuries, the pressure exercised by combined critiques due to religious ideology and later on by rationalist mentality rendered utopias suspect to the eyes of many authors. Christian counter-utopists, ranging from Joseph Hall to Jonathan Swift, accepted and adopted the dogmas rela...
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Bucharest University Press
2022-02-01
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| Series: | University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series |
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| Online Access: | http://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/CorinBraga.pdf |