Michel-Antoine Burnier. Les Paradis Terrestres: 25 siecles d'utopies de Platon a Biosphere 2. Paris: C.O.L., 2000. 207 pp. 96FF.
RECENTLY THERE HAS BEEN a new interest in utopianism in France, best marked by the spectacular exposition held at the Bibliotheque nationale in Paris which opened in May, 2000 ("Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World"). Michel-Antoine Burnier's contribution to this revival is an effort to warn unsuspecting and gullible idealists ...