Disappointing. The idea is good: a professor of philosophy visits imaginary countries where different philosophical systems are the predominant belief and organizing principle.
Unfortunately, it's rather boring. I'd hoped it would be more entertaining than just reading the theories. All too often, Lukes' professor attends lectures by other professors about the system in effect, or the "ordinary people" speak more like lecturers or Socratic dialogues than giving some kind of insight into how people might embody those beliefs. I found the dialogue to be tedious, in very academic language, which obviates the point. For example "Then there are the particularists. They say that a specific community has the answers to how women should be treated, but they don't agree on which that is: some say the Mellifluans, others the Indigens, and so on". Whole paragraphs of monologue in that style.

OK, but not really worth the time reading so I gave up about half-way through.