{"product_id":"thinking-utopia-steps-into-other-worlds-9781845453046","title":"Thinking Utopia: Steps into Other Worlds","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAfter 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“…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.” \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  European Legacy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tPreface and Acknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJörn Rüsen\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMichael Fehr\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThomas W. Rieger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e The Necessity of Utopian Thinking: A Cross-National Perspective\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eLyman Tower Sargent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I: POLITICS, CONSTRUCTION AND FUNCTIONS OF UTOPIAN THINKING\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Aspects of the Western Utopian Tradition\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eKrishan Kumar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Visions of the Future\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMichael Thompson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Utopia, Contractualism, Human Rights\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRichard Saage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e On the Construction of Worlds: Technology and Economy in European Utopias\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eWolfgang Pircher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II: ARTIFICIAL WORLDS AND THE 'NEW MAN'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Bodies in Utopia and Utopian Bodies in Imperial China\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDorothy Ko\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Science, Technology and Utopia: Perspectives of a Computer-Assisted Evolution of Humankind\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eKlaus Mainzer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e ‘Thinking about the Unthinkable’: The Virtual as a Place of Utopia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eClaus Pias\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Natural Utopianism in Everyday Life Practice – An Elementary Theoretical Model\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eUlrich Oevermann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART III: MUSEUM AS UTOPIAN LABORATORY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e Haunted by Things: Utopias and Their Consequences\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDonald Preziosi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e Art – Museum – Utopia: Five Themes on an Epistemological Construction Site\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMichael Fehr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/b\u003e Art, Science, Utopia in the Early Modern Period\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eWolfgang Braungart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/b\u003e Utopiary\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRachel Weiss\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART IV: UTOPIA AS A MEDIUM OF CULTURAL COMMUNICATION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/b\u003e The Utopian Vision, East and West\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eZhang Longxi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 15.\u003c\/b\u003e Trauma: A Dystopia of the Spirit\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMichael S. Roth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 16.\u003c\/b\u003e From Revolutionary to Catastrophic Utopia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eSlavoj Zizek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 17.\u003c\/b\u003e The Narrative Staging of Image and Counter-Image: On the Poetics of Literary Utopias\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eWilhelm Vosskamp\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 18.\u003c\/b\u003e Rethinking Utopia: A Plea for a Culture of Inspiration\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJörn Rüsen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042970796375,"sku":"9781845453046","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845453046.jpg?v=1750956458","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/thinking-utopia-steps-into-other-worlds-9781845453046","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}