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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “toby widdicombe”
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  • Max Nettlau’s Utopian Vision

    A Translation of Esbozo de Historia de Las Utopias

    by Toby Widdicombe ...
    Series series Anthem Anarchist Studies
    Max Nettlau’s Utopian Vision gives a historically grounded presentation of the entire literature of utopianism. Nettlau shows an encyclopedic knowledge of the subject. He passionately believes that the value of utopian thinking and class struggle should not be underestimated as utopian desire exists in all of us. Utopian thinking, according to Nettlau, stimulates the imagination and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • J.R.R. Tolkien

    A Guide for the Perplexed

    by Professor Toby Widdicombe ...
    Series series Guides for the Perplexed
    With his richly detailed world of Middle Earth and the epic tales he told around it, J.R.R. Tolkien invented the modern fantasy novel. For readers and students getting to grips with this world for the first time, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Guide for the Perplexed is an essential guide to the author's life and work.The book helps readers explore:· Tolkien's life and times· Tolkien's mythical world· The ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Utopianism

    by Toby Widdicombe, Andrea Kross, James M. Morris ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series
    Utopian thinking embraces fictional descriptions of how to create a better (but not a perfect) alternative way of life as well as intentional communities (that is, groups of people leading lives in small communities for their own betterment and the betterment of others). The first edition almost exclusively dealt with the intentional-community side of utopianism; this second edition offers a much ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

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  • POLITICAL PARTIES

    A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracies

    by Robert Michels ...
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  • Censors at Work

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    "Splendid…[Darnton gives] us vivid, hard-won detail, illuminating narrative, and subtle, original insight." —Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of BooksWith his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression in distinctive ways.In eighteenth-century France, censors, authors, and booksellers collaborated ... Read more

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  • The Romantic Revolution

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    Series Book 34 - Modern Library Chronicles
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    Origins of the Revolutionary Faith

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  • Left-Wing Melancholia

    Marxism, History, and Memory

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  • The Destruction of Art

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