: Patrick Parrinder
: Utopian Literature and Science From the Scientific Revolution to Brave New World and Beyond
: Palgrave Macmillan
: 9781137456786
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Scientific progress is usually seen as a precondition of modern utopias, but science and utopia are frequently at odds. Ranging from Galileo's observations with the telescope to current ideas of the post-human and the human-animal boundary, this study brings a fresh perspective to the paradoxes of utopian thinking since Plato.