After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is time to rehabilitate utopian thought. The political concept of Utopia that has given its name to these transcendental projections onto the world has been too narrow to describe and analyze the moving forces of the mind perceiving human existence beyond reality. By broadening the perspectives of utopian studies, these essays enable the reader to reconstruct scholarly paradigms and strategies of utopian, complex and holistic thinking in modern cosmology, philosophy, sociology, in literary, historical and political sciences, and to compare traditions and ways of Western utopian thought to the practice in the East.
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Table of contents
- Thinking Utopia
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. The Necessity of Utopian Thinking
- PART I. POLITICS, CONSTRUCTION AND FUNCTIONS OF UTOPIAN THINKING
- Chapter 2. Aspects of the Western Utopian Tradition
- Chapter 3. Visions of the Future
- Appendix: Some Concomitants of the Dimensions of Sociality
- Chapter 4. Utopia, Contractualism, Human Rights
- Chapter 5. On the Construction of Worlds
- PART II. ARTIFICIAL WORLDS AND THE ‘NEW MAN’
- Chapter 6. Bodies in Utopia and Utopian Bodies in Imperial China
- Chapter 7. Science, Technology and Utopia: Perspectives of a Computer-Assisted Evolution of Humankind
- Chapter 8. ‘Thinking about the Unthinkable’
- Chapter 9. Natural Utopianism in Everyday Life Practice
- PART III. MUSEUM AS UTOPIAN LABORATORY
- Chapter 10. Haunted by Things
- Chapter 11. Art – Museum – Utopia
- Chapter 12. Art, Science, Utopia in the Early Modern Period
- Chapter 13. Utopiary
- PART IV. UTOPIA AS A MEDIUM OF CULTURAL COMMUNICATION
- Chapter 14. The Utopian Vision, East and West
- Chapter 15. Trauma
- Chapter 16. From Revolutionary to Catastrophic Utopia
- Chapter 17. The Narrative Staging of Image and Counter-Image
- Chapter 18. Rethinking Utopia
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
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