Literature of Liberty, Winter 1981, vol. 4, No. 4

Literature of Liberty: A Review of Contemporary Liberal Thought was published first by the Cato Institute (1978-1979) and later by the Institute for Humane Studies (1980-1982) under the editorial direction of Leonard P. Liggio. It consisted of a lengthy bibliographical essays, editorials, and many shorter reviews of books and journal articles. There were 5 volumes and 20 issues. This issue contains a lengthy bibliographical essay by Kingsley Widmer on “Utopia and Liberty.”
Literature of Liberty: A Review of Contemporary Liberal Thought was published first by the Cato Institute (1978-1979) and later by the Institute for Humane Studies (1980-1982) under the editorial direction of Leonard P. Liggio.
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Table of Contents
- Editorial Staff
- Associate Editors
- Editorial
- Bibliographical Essay
- Utopia and Liberty: Some Contemporary Issues Within Their Intellectual Traditions
- Some Utopian Dialectics: The Necessity of Understanding Utopia from Multiple Perspectives
- Ambiguities in Contemporary Rejections of Utopia
- The Necessity and Benefits of Utopian Thinking
- The Liberal, Heuristic Service of Authoritarian Utopias
- Critics and Skeptics of Utopia: the Anti-Utopians
- Hayek's Critique of Constructivist Rationalism
- Hayek's Own Utopianism
- The Critique of Utopia as Revolutionary and Violent
- The Critique of Utopia as Economically Collectivist
- Anomalies in the Economics of Utopia
- Stirner and the Issue of Community vs. Collectivism
- Ayn Rand's Ambiguous Utopia of ‘Individualism’
- The Critique of Utopia as Static and Monolithic
- Positive and Negative Dialectics of Utopian City Planning
- Utopian Cities and Human Liberty
- Libertarian Perplexities in Choosing among Utopian Alternatives
- The Dangers of Unacknowledged Utopianism: Bentham, Comte, and Marx as Pseudo-anti-utopians
- Unacknowledged Utopian Claims: Knowledge-as-Control
- How To Look at Utopias with a Double-View: A Critical, Dialectical Approach with Some Examples
- A Double-View of More, Bellamy, and Skinner
- A Skeptically Dialectical View vs. Anti-utopianism
- Mythic Contexts for Viewing Utopias
- Mythic Thinking, Utopianism, and Social Ideals
- The Myth of the Golden Age
- Primitivism and the Arcadian Mythos
- English Variations on Arcadia: Morris and Lawrence
- American Variations on Arcadia: Thoreau and ‘Soft Primitivism’
- American Arcadianism and Utopian Homesteading
- The Anti-technocratic Meaning of Utopian Ruralism
- Critical Awareness of the Roots of American Utopian Communalism: Communes as Entrepreneurial Social Experiments
- Utopian Communes and Cultural Radicalism: Communalism as a Refuge for Individualist Freedom
- The Significance of Marginal “Little Utopias”
- Small Business Urban Counter-utopianism: The Revolt against Bureaucracy
- The Urbanization of Arcadian Utopianism: Callenbach and Others
- Radical Arcadian Utopias for Personal Freedom: Humanizing, Debureaucratizing, and Depowering Society
- Utopian Personal and Sensual Freedom
- The Saturnalian
- Sexual Utopianism and Family Relations
- The Roots of Recent Hedonic Utopianism
- Erotic Utopianism: Wilhelm Reich, Norman O. Brown, and Herbert Marcuse
- The Search for a Free Libidinal Economy
- Technological Utopianism: Escapes from the Human
- Technocratic vs. Arcadian Utopianism
- Technocratic Elitism and Scientistic Religion
- H.G. Wells' Technocratic Religion of Man: From Demi-god to Fallen Angel
- Fuller's Mechanical Utopianism and Other Technological Escapes from the Human
- Other Sons of Wells: Escapes from Human Mortality
- Hip-technotopians and Perfectibilism
- Futurology, Predictions, and Dystopia
- The Black Futurists
- Elitist Dark Futures: Heilbroner and Bell
- New Age Counterings to Technocracy and Rational Functionalism
- Satin's New Age Utopianism
- Other New Age Utopians: Thompson and Roszak
- Roszak's Personalist Countering of Bell's Technocratic Utopianism
- Dialectical Counterings to Utopian and Technological Optimism
- Anti-Utopian Counterings: Dostoyevsky and Forster
- Other Negative Utopians: Capek and Vonnegut
- Zamiatin's We: Utopian Vision & Anti-utopian Fiction
- Other Utopian Anti-utopians: Huxley, Orwell, and Lawrence
- The Utopia-Dystopia Tradition and Our Age
- Science Fiction and the Utopia-Dystopia Dialectics
- Le Guin's Ambiguous Utopia: Permanent Libertarian Rebellion
- Nozick's Right-Libertarian Utopia: Pseudo-pluralism
- Nozick's Unhistorical Notion of the Utopian and the Meta-utopian
- Nozick's Meta-utopianism: the Denial of Specific Variety
- True Libertarian Meta-utopianism and Advancing Specific Variety
- Economic Specifics for a Meta-utopia
- Concluding Meta-utopian Specifics: Overcoming Enslaving Utopianism
- Footnotes
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- I: Economics and the Free Society
- The Compatibility of Justice & the Market
- Is Capitalism Free and Just?
- Is Free Enterprise Coercive?
- Private Enterprise vs. Central Planning
- Vicious Motivations & Commercial Society
- Economic Policy: Free Trade and Values
- Violence, the State & the Rise of Capitalism
- Braudel's Ideological Theory of Capitalism
- Cognition, Choice, and Entrepreneurship
- Federal Expenditures ‘Crowd Out’ Private Investment
- The Mirage of Economic Efficiency
- Private Property and Energy Resources
- Rent Control vs. Economic Reasoning
- II: Law, Liberty, and Political Thought
- Restitution vs. Punishment & Crime Prevention
- Criminology & Rationales for Punishment
- Defending Freedom of Contract
- Privatizing Public Parks
- Law and the American Economy
- Sumner, Social Darwinism & Property
- Lagos and Colonial Property Rights
- Price Controls, Legal Regulation & Inflation
- Discrimination and Affirmative Action
- The First Amendment and Pornography
- The Right to Leave Any Country
- The Evolving Notions of Individual and Society
- INDEX
- Authors
- CUMULATIVE INDEX, VOLUME IV
- Economics
- Education
- History
- Law
- Philosophy
- Political Philosophy
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Sociology and Social Science Methodology
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