Thinking Utopia
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Thinking Utopia

Steps into Other Worlds

  1. 328 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Thinking Utopia

Steps into Other Worlds

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2006
Print ISBN
9781845453046
eBook ISBN
9781782382027
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Historiography
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Thinking Utopia
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Preface and Acknowledgements
  5. Chapter 1. The Necessity of Utopian Thinking
  6. PART I. POLITICS, CONSTRUCTION AND FUNCTIONS OF UTOPIAN THINKING
  7. Chapter 2. Aspects of the Western Utopian Tradition
  8. Chapter 3. Visions of the Future
  9. Appendix: Some Concomitants of the Dimensions of Sociality
  10. Chapter 4. Utopia, Contractualism, Human Rights
  11. Chapter 5. On the Construction of Worlds
  12. PART II. ARTIFICIAL WORLDS AND THE ‘NEW MAN’
  13. Chapter 6. Bodies in Utopia and Utopian Bodies in Imperial China
  14. Chapter 7. Science, Technology and Utopia: Perspectives of a Computer-Assisted Evolution of Humankind
  15. Chapter 8. ‘Thinking about the Unthinkable’
  16. Chapter 9. Natural Utopianism in Everyday Life Practice
  17. PART III. MUSEUM AS UTOPIAN LABORATORY
  18. Chapter 10. Haunted by Things
  19. Chapter 11. Art – Museum – Utopia
  20. Chapter 12. Art, Science, Utopia in the Early Modern Period
  21. Chapter 13. Utopiary
  22. PART IV. UTOPIA AS A MEDIUM OF CULTURAL COMMUNICATION
  23. Chapter 14. The Utopian Vision, East and West
  24. Chapter 15. Trauma
  25. Chapter 16. From Revolutionary to Catastrophic Utopia
  26. Chapter 17. The Narrative Staging of Image and Counter-Image
  27. Chapter 18. Rethinking Utopia
  28. Notes on Contributors
  29. Index