Course 1404
Introduction to Social History: Utopian Views

Reading List

I. Primary Sources
II. Selected Secondary Sources

I. Primary Sources

  1. Plato The Republic, Book II, III, IV, V.
  2. Genesis 2 and 3.
  3. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville.
  4. Christine de Pisan, The Book of the City of the Ladies (1405).
  5. Thomas More, Utopia (1516).
  6. Tommaso Campanella, The City of the Sun (1602).
  7. Plato, Critias.
  8. Plato, Timaios.
  9. Francis Bacon, New Atlantis (1626).
  10. Dr. John Wallis, The Origin of the Royal Society, 1645-1662.
  11. Henry Neville, The Isle of Pines.
  12. Denis Diderot, Love in Tahiti.
  13. Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Fourth Voyage.
  14. Robert Owen, An Address to the Inhabitants of New Lanark.
  15. Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto.
  16. William Morris, News from Nowhere.
  17. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World.

II. Selected Secondary Sources

  1. Artur Blaim, Early English Utopian Fiction. A Study of a Literary Genre, Lublin 1984.
  2. J.C. Davis, Utopia and the Ideal Society. A Study of English Utopian Writing 1516-1700, Cambridge 1981.
  3. J.H. Hexter, More's Utopia. The Biography of an Idea, Westport, Connecticut 1976.
  4. Frank E. and Fritzie P. Manuel, Utopian Thought in the Western World, Cambridge, Mass. 1979.
  5. Karl R. Popper, The Open Society and its Enemies, Princeton 1971.
  6. Jerzy Szacki, Spotkania z utopią, Warszawa 1980.



Paweł Rutkowski