Aspects of the western utopian tradition

History of the Human Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 63-77

  Kumar, Krishan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti utopia; Ideal society; Literary genre; Utopia; Western social thought

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042378949     PISSN: 09526951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0952695103016001006     Document Type: Article

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