Timely Utopias: Notes on Utopian Thinking in the Twentieth Century

Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the Twentieth Century

World history is often written as a series of wars, large conflicts that stem from leaders who imagine that the world would be a better place " if I owned that land, " " if they used our political policy, " or " if only the superior race existed. " Jay Winter has termed these events " major utopias, " ideas that " uproot, cleanse, transform, exterminate. " In Dreams of Peace and Freedom, Winter...

Muslim Intellectuals and the Perennial Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

This paper will examine how Muslim intellectuals, as a result of their attachment to the doctrine of Divine Unity (taw¤hīd), the Quran, Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad, and the doctrines and methods of Sufism, were largely responsible for the restating of the perennial philosophy in the West in the twentieth century. The article consists of four sections: an introduction to the term 'philosophia...

Mutant utopias: evening primroses and imagined futures in early twentieth-century America.

Hugo de Vries's mutation theory is now little more than a footnote to the history of biology, a failed theory that briefly led a few biologists astray. However, for the first quarter of the twentieth century it attracted considerable attention from both professional biologists and laypeople. De Vries's theory--together with the plant, Oenothera lamarckiana, that had supplied most of his evidenc...

Twentieth-century Perspectives on Culture

Medicine in the twentieth century

Forty-six chapters plus a substantial introduction, fifty-one contributors, 745 pages of packed text (with surprisingly little repetition)-Medicine in the twentieth century is indeed a formidably determined attempt to encompass a very complex period in medical history. Its editors have been, furthermore, ambitious in more than mere scale. The book is divided into three long sections whose title...