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Thinking Utopia: Steps into Other Worlds

By Jörn Rüsen (editor) , Michael Fehr (editor) , Thomas W. Rieger (editor)

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2005
ISBN
157181440X, 9781571814401
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3530743 bytes)
Series
Making Sense of History, 4
Edition
1
Pages
324\324
Time added
2021-10-25 09:02:36

Description

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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