乌有乡消息
2003-7
中国政法
莫里斯
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News from Nowhere（1890）is the most famous work of one of the greatest British writers and thinkers，William Morris.It is a utopoian picture of a future communist society，drawing on the worh of Ruskin and Marx and written in response to what Morris saw as soulless and mechanical visions of sovialism.In this work of his last years，Morris distilled many of his leading ideas on politics，art and society，imagining a world in which capitalism has been abolished by a works’revolution and nature and society have become beautiful habitations for hunmanity.In an era that has seen the collapse of state socialism，Morris's damning critique of this conception，and his positing of a powerful alternative，are compelling reasons for paying attention to this coassic of British socislism.
KRISHAN KUMAR is the William R.Kenan,Jr.Professor of Sociologry,Umiversity of Virginia .His publications include Prophecy and Progress(1978),Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modem Time(1987),The Rise of Modem Socicty(1988)and Utopicnism(1991).
IntroductionChronologyBibliographical noteA note on the textNews from Nowhere 1 Discussion and bed 2 A morning bath 3 The guest house and breakfast 4 A market by the way 5 Chilcren on the road 6 A little shopping 7 Trafalgar Square 8 An old friend 9 Concerning love 10 Questions and answers 11 Concerning government 12 Concerning the arrangement of life 13 Concerning politics 14 How matters are managed 15 On the lack of incentive to labour in a communist society 16 Dinner in the hall of the Bloomsbury Market 17 How the change came 18 The beginning of the new life 19 The drive back to Hammersmith 20 THe Hammersmith guest house again 21 Going up the river 22 Hampton Court,and a praiser of past times 23 An early morning by Runnymede 24 Up the thames 25 The third day on the thames 26 The Obstinate Refusers 27 The upper waters 28 The little river 29 A resting-place on the upper thames 30 The journey’s end 31 An old house amongst new folk 32 The feast’s veginning -the endIndex
'The strike went on this day also. The workmen's committees were extended， and gave relief to great numbers“people， for they had orgarused a considerable amount of production of food by men whom they could depend upon. Quite a number of well-to-do people were now compelled to seek relief of them. But another curious thing happened：a band of young men“the upper classes armed themselves， and coolly went marauding in the streets， taking what suited them of such eatables and portables that they came across in the shops which had ventured to open. Thus operation they carried out in Oxford Street， then a great street of shops of all kinds. The Government， being at that hour in one of their yielding moods， thought this a fine opportunity for showing their impartiality in the maintenance of "order"， and sent to arrest these hungry rich youths; who， however， surprised the police by a valiant resistance， so that all but three escaped. The Govenment did not gain the reputation for impartiality which they expected from this move， for they forgot that there were no evening papers; and the account of the skirnush spread wide indeed， but in a distorted form; for it was mostly told simply as an exploit of the starving people from the East-end; and everybody thought it was but natural for the Government to put them down when and where they could. 'That evening the rebel prisoners were visited in their cells by very polite and sympathetic persons， who pointed out to them what a suicidal course they were following， and how dangerous these extreme courses were for the popular cause. Says one of the prisoners： "It is was great sport comparing notes when we came out anent the attempt of the Government to 'get at' us separately a prison， and how we answered the blandishments of the highly 'intelligent and refined' persons set on to pump us. One laughed; another told extravagant long-bow stories to the envoy;a third held a sulky silence;a fourth damned the polite spy and bade him hold his jaw - and that was all they got out of us." ……
书评在政治理论领域，“剑桥政治思想史原著系列”作为主要的学生教科丛书，如今已牢固确立了其地位。本丛书旨在使学生能够获得从古希腊到20世纪初期西方政治思想史方面所有最为重要的原著。它囊括了所有著名的经典原著，但与此同时，它又扩展了传统的评价尺度， 以便能够纳入范围广泛、不那么出名的作品。而在此之前，这些作品中有许多从未有过现代英文版本可资利用。只要可能，所选原著都会以完整而不删节的形式出版，其中的译作则是专门为本丛书的目的而安排。每一本书都有一个评论性的导言，加上历史年表、生平梗概、进一步阅读指南， 以及必要的词汇表和原文注解。本丛书的最终目的是，为西方政治思想的整个发展脉络提供一个清晰的轮廓。
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