Texts marked with "K" will be printed in a compendium which can be bought at Kopiutsalget, Akademika.
Syllabus / Required reading
Baccolini, Raffaella and Tom Moylan (ed.) (2003): Dark Horizon. Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination. New York and London: Routledge. P. 13-27 & 233-249. 32 p. K
Callenbach, Ernest (1975/1990): Ecotopia. New York: Bantam Books. 100 p.
Davis, Laurence (2001): “Isaiah Berlin, William Morris and the Politics of Utopia.” P. 56-86 in Goodwin, Barbara (ed.) The Philosophy of Utopia. London: Frank Cass. 31 p. K
de Geus, Marius (1999): Ecological Utopias, Utrecht: International Books. Chapter 12 & 13. 38 p. K
Huxley, Aldous (1932/94): Brave New World. London: Flamingo. 100 p.
Jameson, Fredric (2005): Archaeologies of the Future. The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions. London: Verso. Chapter 10 & 13. 52 p. K
Kumar, Krishan (1991): Utopianism. Milton Keynes: Open University Press. P. 25-62. 38 p. K
Le Guin, Ursula K. (1974): The Dispossessed. New York: Harper & Row. 100 p.
Levitas, Ruth (2001): “For Utopia: The (Limits of the) Utopian Function in Late Capitalist Society.” P. 25-43 in Goodwin, Barbara (ed.) The Philosophy of Utopia. London: Frank Cass. 19 p. K
Mathisen, Werner Christie (2001): ”The Underestimation of Politics in Green Utopias: The Description of Politics in Huxley's Island, Le Guin's The Dispossessed, and Callenbach's Ecotopia.” Utopian Studies 12: 56-78. 23 p. K
Mathisen, Werner Christie (2006): "Green utopianism and the Greening of Science and Higher Education." Organization & Environment 19, (1): 110-125. 16p. Link
More, Thomas (1516/1989). Utopia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 100 p.
Morris, William (1890/1993): News from Nowhere and Other Writings. London: Penguin. 100 p.
Moylan, Tom (1986): Demand the impossible: Science fiction and the utopian imagination. New York: Methuen. P. 121-155 35 p. K
Nozick, Robert (1974): Anarchy, State and Utopia. New York: Basic Books. P. 309-334 & 351-353 28 p. K
Piercy, Marge (1976/81): Woman on the Edge of Time. London: The Women's Press. 100 p.
Sargisson, Lucy (1996): Contemporary Feminist Utopianism. London: Routledge. Chapter 1. 30 p. K
Total: 942p. (All the novels are counted as 100p. regardless of their actual number of pages.)
Recommended reading
Ackroyd Peter (1998): The Life of Thomas More. London: Chatto & Windus.
Callenbach, Ernest (1981): Ecotopia emerging. Berkeley: Banyan Tree Books.
de Geus, Marius (1999): Ecological Utopias. Utrecht: International Books.
Griffiths, Virginia Anne (2005): Contemporary Feminist Utopianism and the Transformation of the Political. Oslo: Universitetet i Oslo, Institutt for statsvitenskap. Masteroppgave.
Herz, Dietmar (1999): Thomas Morus zur Einführung. Hamburg: Junius.
Huxley, Aldous (1965): Brave New World Revisited. New York: Harper & Row.
Kumar, Krishan (1987): Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Mathisen, Werner Christie (2001): ”Vidunderlige nye verden”, Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, 18, (4) s. 109-118.
Mathisen, Werner Christie (2006) ”Utopier – noe for statsvitere?“, Norsk Statsvitenskapelig Tidsskrift 22. (4) s. 420-433.
Saage, Richard (1995): Vermessungen des Nirgendwo: Begriffe, Wirkungsgeschichte und Lernprozesse der neuzeitlichen Utopien. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
Saage, Richard (1997): Utopieforschung. Eine Bilanz. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
Saage, Richard (2003): Utopische Profile: Widersprüche und Synthesen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Münster: Lit Verlag.
Waschkuhn, Arno (2003): Politiche Utopien. München: R.Oldenbourg.