Thinking Utopia: Steps into Other WorldsJörn Rüsen, Michael Fehr, Thomas W. Rieger Berghahn Books, 2005 M07 1 - 328 pages 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. |
Contents
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Chapter 3 Visions of the Future | 32 |
Some Concomitants of the Dimensions of Sociality | 51 |
Chapter 4 Utopia Contractualism Human Rights | 53 |
Chapter 5 On the Construction of Worlds | 67 |
PART II ARTIFICIAL WORLDS AND THE NEW MAN | 87 |
Chapter 10 Haunted by Things | 151 |
Chapter 11 Art Museum Utopia | 169 |
Chapter 12 Art Science Utopia in the Early Modern Period | 174 |
Chapter 13 Utopiary | 190 |
PART IV UTOPIA AS A MEDIUM OF CULTURAL COMMUNICATION | 205 |
Chapter 14 The Utopian Vision East and West | 207 |
Chapter 15 Trauma | 230 |
Chapter 16 From Revolutionary to Catastrophic Utopia | 247 |
Chapter 6 Bodies in Utopia and Utopian Bodies in Imperial China | 89 |
Perspectives of a ComputerAssisted Evolution of Humankind | 104 |
Chapter 8 Thinking about the Unthinkable | 120 |
Chapter 9 Natural Utopianism in Everyday Life Practice | 136 |
PART III MUSEUM AS UTOPIAN LABORATORY | 149 |
Chapter 17 The Narrative Staging of Image and CounterImage | 263 |
Chapter 18 Rethinking Utopia | 276 |
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