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Economic Inequality: Utopian Explorations
Paperback
Series: Ralahine Utopian Studies, Book 32
Business GeneralInvesting & FinanceLiterary Criticism
ISBN13: 9781803741765
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
Published: Apr 25 2024
Pages: 356
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This relevant, clearly defined study isn't constricted by its primary focus on late nineteenth-century American utopias, written when inequality flourished. Morris enriches this focus with chronological comparisons to well-known and lesser-known American utopias in other periods; international contexts from non-American authors; and interpretive perspectives by utopian specialists, political scientists, philosophers, and sociologists. But the book's most striking quality is the variety of reforms identified and discussed. This variety greatly enhances our understanding of utopists' war on inequality.
(Kenneth M. Roemer, Emeritus Fellow, University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers. Author of The Obsolete Necessity, Utopian Audiences, and (ed.) America as Utopia
Utopian alternatives to current, persistent and increasing inequality matter: as William Blake said, 'What is now proved was once, only imagin'd', and so Donald Morris examines a wealth of possibilities, some outlandish, but all conceivable, and many eminently feasible, from a tradition of literary and imaginative forms of political and social theory. A hopeful and invigorating read.
(Tom Boland, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University College Cork)
This work explores what utopian writers have said about economic inequality. Its transdisciplinary focus is literary utopias--novels of social theory--by authors seeking solutions to the problems of economic inequality. The work challenges our moral assumptions about economic inequality--its potential for resolution--or its inevitability and the ultimate bifurcation of society. It is not an economic treatise but an exploration in social philosophy in its utopian expressions. Economic inequality sets arbitrary limits on whose contributions will benefit society, thereby squandering talent, limiting opportunities, and stifling competition--capriciously restricting the pool of competitors--by class or gender or race. As utopian writers envision a future where the extremes of poverty and wealth have been tempered, it is instructive to explore the instruments they employ; by what measures have they defeated poverty or diminished the threats boundless fortunes pose, thereby revitalizing society?
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