The Utopians, Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society (Signed copy)
Signed by Anna Neima, the first printing
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Printing Details
First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 24 × 15.5cm, 306pp.
Signed by Anna Neima to a specially bound in page.
Santiniketan-Sriniketan in India, Dartington Hall in England, Atarashiki Mura in Japan, the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France, the Bruderhof in Germany and Trabuco College in America: six experimental communities established in the aftermath of the First World War, each aiming to change the world. Anna Neima's The Utopians is an absorbing and vivid account of these collectives and their charismatic leaders and reveals them to be full of eccentric characters, outlandish lifestyles and unchecked idealism.
Dismissed and even mocked in their time, yet, a century later, their influence still resonates in progressive education, environmentalism, medical research and mindfulness training. Without such inspirational experiments in how to live, post-war society would have been a poorer place.
Condition
Light wear to the wrapper, otherwise a very good copy.
ISBN
2928377056346
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Price
£20.00
