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Keith Taylor (political scientist)

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In January 2000, Taylor founded Kidney Cancer UK, a support organisation for kidney cancer patients and their carers and the first such organisation in Britain. He founded the organisation after he himself was diagnosed with the disease.
99:(1983), looked at the significance of Utopias for political theory and practice and argued that the political function of Utopias was to imaginatively transcend "the ubiquitous, seemingly unassailable present." 22: 309: 329: 314: 40:, about which he wrote and convened an academic seminar in the 1980s when the area was of little academic interest in Britain. In 2000 he founded 324: 91:
and in the early 1980s convened a study group on Utopian thought when the area was of little academic interest in Britain. His 1982 book,
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Davis, Laurence, "History, politics, and Utopia: Toward a synthesis of social theory and practice" in
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Henri Saint Simon 1760-1825: Selected writings on science, industry and social organization
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Keith Taylor was born in Manchester on 25 March 1949. He was educated at
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Taylor married twice and had one son. His wife Dinah died in 2003.
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Existential Utopia: New perspectives on Utopian thought
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The politics of Utopia: A study in theory and practice
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The politics of Utopia: A study in theory and practice
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after which he completed his master's degree at the
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political scientist
Utopian socialism
Kidney Cancer UK
Manchester Grammar School
University of Kent
University of Leicester
Ealing Technical College
Coventry Polytechnic
University of Westminster
Utopian socialism
ISBN
0841902127
ISBN
0714630896
St. Martin's Press




Keith Taylor.
The Independent
The concept of Utopia
ISBN
978-3-03911-366-8
Levitas, p. 201.
Existential Utopia: New perspectives on Utopian thought
ISBN
978-1-4411-1539-3
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