What 2,000 years of experimentation can teach us about the good life
To dream of tomorrow's society, we'll have to go outside the box.
Oscar Wilde already knew: “A world map that does not include Utopia is not worth seeing.“In her new book, Kristen Ghodsee takes you through a procession of larger and smaller Utopias. Because the search for other ways of organizing households, parenting, relationships, family, housing and property is as old as humanity itself. Even Pythagoras — yes, that of the triangle — already had its own commune six centuries before Christ where men and women distributed work fairly. To dream of tomorrow's society, we'll have to go outside the box. The utopian feminist visions of the past can help and inspire us to do so. Change the world, change how you live, care and love (this book teaches you how to do that)
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