More, Huxley, Eggers, and the Utopian/Dystopian Tradition
Contributor(s): Peter C. Herman
From its inception in Plato’s Republic and revival in Thomas More’s Utopia, the concept of a perfect (or as More originally put it in a qualification often lost, “best”) form of a republic has been dogged by the spectres of hypocrisy, contradiction, and authoritarianism. However, the matter...