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The Year 3000: A Dream
Mantegazza, Paolo. Ed(S): Pireddu, Nicoletta
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Description for The Year 3000: A Dream
paperback. The first English translation of Mantegazza's futurist and utopian book, which uses the story of Paolo and Maria, a pair of lovers who travel to the capital city of the United Planetary States to get married, as a pretext to explore larger societal issues Editor(s): Pireddu, Nicoletta. Translator(s): Jacobson, David. Series: Bison Frontiers of Imagination. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FL; YFT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
First published in 1897, The Year 3000 is the most daring and original work of fiction by the prominent Italian anthropologist Paolo Mantegazza. A futuristic utopian novel, the book follows two young lovers who, as they travel from Rome to the capital of the United Planetary States to celebrate their “mating union,” encounter the marvels of cultural and scientific advances along the way. Intriguing in itself, The Year 3000 is also remarkable for both its vision of the future (predicting an astonishing array of phenomena from airplanes, artificial intelligence, CAT scans, and credit cards to controversies surrounding divorce, abortion, and ... Read more
First published in 1897, The Year 3000 is the most daring and original work of fiction by the prominent Italian anthropologist Paolo Mantegazza. A futuristic utopian novel, the book follows two young lovers who, as they travel from Rome to the capital of the United Planetary States to celebrate their “mating union,” encounter the marvels of cultural and scientific advances along the way. Intriguing in itself, The Year 3000 is also remarkable for both its vision of the future (predicting an astonishing array of phenomena from airplanes, artificial intelligence, CAT scans, and credit cards to controversies surrounding divorce, abortion, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bison Books United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Bison Frontiers of Imagination
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803230323
SKU
V9780803230323
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About Mantegazza, Paolo. Ed(S): Pireddu, Nicoletta
Paolo Mantegazza (1831–1910) was a prominent Italian neurologist, physiologist, anthropologist, defender and correspondent of Darwin, and fiction writer. Nicoletta Pireddu is the director of the comparative literature program and an associate professor of Italian and comparative literature at Georgetown University. She is the editor of Paolo Mantegazza’s Physiology of Love and Other Writings. David Jacobson translated Mantegazza’s Physiology of Love and ... Read more
Reviews for The Year 3000: A Dream
“Two welcome surprises await readers of this book: the first is simply that a nineteenth-century masterpiece of utopian literature has been made available to them in a translation that reads like an original, and the second, that a great scholar has written a user-friendly, highly sophisticated, and passionate introduction shedding light on the times of neo-positivism, its antecedents, and its ... Read more