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OverviewBy 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joern Rusen , Michael Fehr , Thomas W. RiegerPublisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated Imprint: Berghahn Books, Incorporated Volume: v. 4 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.562kg ISBN: 9781571814401ISBN 10: 157181440 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 01 July 2005 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Joern Rusen, Michael Fehr and Thomas W. Rieger Chapter 1. The Necessity of Utopian Thinking: A Cross-National Perspective Lyman Tower Sargent PART I: POLITICS, CONSTRUCTION AND FUNCTIONS OF UTOPIAN THINKING Chapter 2. Aspects of the Western Utopian Tradition Krishan Kumar Chapter 3. Visions of the Future Michael Thompson Chapter 4. Utopia, Contractualism, Human Rights Richard Saage Chapter 5. On the Construction of Worlds: Technology and Economy in European Utopias Wolfgang Pircher PART II: ARTIFICIAL WORLDS AND THE 'NEW MAN' Chapter 6. Bodies in Utopia and Utopian Bodies in Imperial China Dorothy Ko Chapter 7. Science, Technology and Utopia: Perspectives of a Computer-Assisted Evolution of Humankind Klaus Mainzer Chapter 8. 'Thinking about the Unthinkable': The Virtual as a Place of Utopia Claus Pias Chapter 9. Natural Utopianism in Everyday Life Practice - An Elementary Theoretical Model Ulrich Oevermann PART III: MUSEUM AS UTOPIAN LABORATORY Chapter 10. Haunted by Things: Utopias and Their Consequences Donald Preziosi Chapter 11. Art - Museum - Utopia: Five Themes on an Epistemological Construction Site Michael Fehr Chapter 12. Art, Science, Utopia in the Early Modern Period Wolfgang Braungart Chapter 13. Utopiary Rachel Weiss PART IV: UTOPIA AS A MEDIUM OF CULTURAL COMMUNICATION Chapter 14. The Utopian Vision, East and West Zhang Longxi Chapter 15. Trauma: A Dystopia of the Spirit Michael S. Roth Chapter 16. From Revolutionary to Catastrophic Utopia Slavoj Zizek Chapter 17. The Narrative Staging of Image and Counter-Image: On the Poetics of Literary Utopias Wilhelm Vosskamp Chapter 18. Rethinking Utopia: A Plea for a Culture of Inspiration Joern Rusen Notes on Contributors IndexReviews...a highly readable and structured discussion about utopian thinking at the beginning of the 21st century...It is indeed fortunate that political scientists, historians, philosophers, art critics, and literary theorists have come together to share their thinking on utopia and utopian thought at this disastrous moment of human history, when many are asking if there is a future to which to look forward. * European Legacy - a highly readable and structured discussion about utopian thinking at the beginning of the 21st century - It is indeed fortunate that political scientists, historians, philosophers, art critics, and literary theorists have come together to share their thinking on utopia and utopian thought at this disastrous moment of human history, when many are asking if there is a future to which to look forward.A * European Legacy Author InformationJoern Rusen was Professor of Modern History at Universities Bochum and Bielefeld for many years. From 1994 to 1997 he was Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld. Since 1997 he has been President of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut). He specialises in theory and methodology of historical sciences, the history of historiography, intercultural aspects of historical thinking, theory of historical learning, and the history of human rights. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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