Introduction: The utopian propensity

Part 1: Ancient and medieval wellsprings

1: Paradise and the millennium

2: Golden age of Kronos

3: Great transmission

Part 2: Birth Of Utopia

4: Passion of Thomas More

5: Citta felice for architects and philosophers

6: Heaven on earth for the common man

Part 3: Flowering And Death Of The Christian Utopia

7: Pansophia: a dream of science

8: Bruno, the magus of Nola

9: Bacon, the trumpeter of New Atlantis

10: Campanella's city of the sun

11: Andreae, pastor of Christianopolis

12: Comenius and his disciples

13: Topsy-turvy in the English Civil War

14: Sun King and his enemies

15: Leibniz: the swan song of the Christian republic

Part 4: Eupsychias Of The Enlightenment

16: Philosophes's dilemma

Monde ideal of Jean-Jacques

Freedom from the wheel

19: Turgot on the future of the mind

20. Condorcet: progression to Elysium

21: Kant: beyond animality

Part 5: Revolutionary Diptych

22: New faces of love

23: Equality or death

Part 6: Union Of Labor And Love

24: Battle of the systems

25: Saint-Simon: the pear is ripe

26: Children of Saint-Simon: the triumph of love

27: Fourier: the burgeoning of instinct

Owen's new moral world

Part 7: Marx And Counter-Marx

29: Marx and Engels in the landscape of utopia

30: Comte, high priest of the Positivist Church

31: Anarchy and the heroic proletariat

Part 8: Twilight Of Utopia

32: Utopia Victoriana

33: Darwinism, the ambiguous intruder

34: Freudo-Marxism, a hybrid for the times

Epilogue: Utopian prospect

Notes

Selected bibliography

Index.