Politics, art, and utopia in French anarchism and Italian futurism 1890-1920 In Paroles d'un revolte, Peter Kropotkin outlined a new vision for the arts as part of his anarchist philosophy, asserting that "the arts have a mission to accomplish for the achievement of the future society... ... Secondly, to compare and contrast the relative utopian visions of both movements through their theatre. ... But what is it about the stage, both the interactions performed on it and the audience's engagement with it, that imbues it with the revolutionary potential to intersect the political, ...

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John Rawls and Jean- Jacques Rousseau are both known for their theories regarding what would constitute an ideal state of existence, but despite many similarities in their political theories, and the clear influence that Rousseau had on Rawls's work, the utopian society proposed by Rousseau would not qualify as a just utopian society by Rawls's standards. ... According to Rousseau, what matters is the whole. ... Rousseau's utopian society is one that revolves around a mindset of group benefit fostered by using force and the "general will" to take from individuals any...

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What evidence is there that the author(s) of your chosen reading are influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment and/or modernism? ... This emphasis can be closely linked with the enlightenment thinkers who placed huge importance on the freedom- of the press- relying on it to be the overseer of society, politics and the economy. ... In this article, Keane believes that enlightenment thinkers "failed to see that their utopian vision contained several blind spots" (Keane, 1991: 35). ... In keeping with this notion, Cunningham and Flew emphasise the emerging structure of Australian society a...

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Liberals argue that trade benefits everyone because it helps people concentrate on what they are best at (the formal version of this argument is the theory of ˜comparative advantage'). ... Allowing free trade sends price signals that encourage people to work at what they are best at, a strategy that benefits everyone over the long term. ... For the developing world, "doing what you are best at" in trade may mean providing sweatshop labour so that consumers in Europe can have cheaper trainers or electronic goods. ...

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