推荐理由
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。
内容简介
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.
本书作者
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).
目录
Introduction
Chronology
Bibliographical note
A note on the text
News 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 end
Index
