Books like Equality by Edward Bellamy

Atlas Shrugged follows the collapse of a near‑future American economy as leading innovators vanish, revealing the battle between individual genius and a society that suppresses it.

A future dystopian novel set in a highly regulated One State society that emphasizes logical reasoning and mass surveillance.

A sweeping narrative of diverse characters linked by trees, exploring how they learn to see the hidden world of forests and join a fight to preserve the last virgin woodlands.

A dystopian vision of an oligarchic tyranny rising in the United States, showcasing Jack London's explicit socialist perspective.

Upton Sinclair’s 1912 novel envisions a post‑World III future where a catastrophic radiumite explosion wipes out humanity, leaving eleven survivors who attempt to rebuild society, ultimately striving toward a cooperative utopia.

A post-apocalyptic quest to save humanity on the moon and Mars in the near future of humanity, exploring the consequences of a utopian society and the challenges of artificial intelligence and space exploration.

H. G. Wells’s 1906 novel "In the Days of the Comet" explores how the sight of a comet sparks societal and personal transformation in a pre‑war setting.

Edmund Burke’s *Reflections on the Revolution in France*, first printed in 1789‑90, remains a foundational text of English conservatism, offering a critical view of the French Revolution and its impact on public opinion.

Edward Bellamy’s 1888 classic follows a 19th‑century man who falls asleep and awakens in the year 2000, discovering a technologically advanced, socially equal society that challenges the reader to question contemporary economic and political structures.

A man is woken up 113 years later to a completely new social structure.

An adventurous sea story by James Fenimore Cooper, set in the Pacific Ocean, featuring castaways and utopian themes within a historical fiction framework.

An enduring theme of Western philosophy is that we are all one another's equals. Yet the principle of basic equality is woefully under-explored in modern moral and political philosophy. In a major new work, Jeremy Waldron attempts to remedy that shortfall with a subtle and multifaceted account of the basis for the West's commitment to human equality. What does it mean to say we are all one another's equals? Is this supposed to distinguish humans from other animals? What is human equality based on? Is it a religious idea, or a matter of human rights? Is there some essential feature that all human beings have in common? Waldron argues that there is no single characteristic that serves as the basis of equality. He says the case for moral equality rests on four capacities that all humans have the potential to possess in some degree: reason, autonomy, moral agency, and ability to love. But how should we regard the differences that people display on these various dimensions? And what are we to say about those who suffer from profound disability--people whose claim to humanity seems to outstrip any particular capacities they have along these lines? Waldron, who has worked on the nature of equality for many years, confronts these questions and others fully and unflinchingly. Based on the Gifford Lectures he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 2015, One Another's Equals takes Waldron's thinking further and deeper than ever before--