Gilded Age Utopias of Incorporation(*).(commercialism)
From: Utopian Studies
|
Date: 1/1/2001
|
Author: PRETTYMAN, GIB
ONE OF THE MORE PERPLEXING COMPLICATIONS facing scholars of the utopian imagination is the fact that, as Dean MacCannell observes, modern commercial culture is "more revolutionary in-itself than the most revolutionary consciousness so far devised" (12). Krishan Kumar, following Robert Nozick, uses the term "meta-utopia" to signify how America has been a "place which freely allows people to form and re-form themselves into utopian communities of diverse kinds" (81). As such America ...
COPYRIGHT 2001 Society for Utopian Studies
This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.
For permission to reuse this article, contact Copyright Clearance Center.