Dystopia - A Natural History Claeys Gregory Professor of History Royal Holloway University of LondonPaperback
Dystopia - A Natural History Claeys Gregory Professor of History Royal Holloway University of LondonPaperback Dystopia: A Natural History is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. By…
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Dystopia - A Natural History Claeys Gregory Professor of History Royal Holloway University of LondonPaperback
Dystopia: A Natural History is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. By contrast to utopia, conceived as promoting an ideal of friendship defined as enhanced sociability', dystopia is defined by estrangement, fear, and the proliferation of 'enemy' categories. Taking the term to encompass both a literary tradition of satirical works, mostly on totalitarianism, as well as real despotisms and societies in a state of disastrous collapse, this volume redefines the central concepts and the chronology of the genre and offers a paradigm-shifting understanding of the subject.Part One assesses the theory and prehistory of 'dystopia'.
The work of Le Bon, Freud, and others is used to show how dystopian groups use such emotions. Utopia A natural history of dystopia thus concentrates upon the centrality of the passion or emotion of fear and hatred in modern despotisms.