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…mehr
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.
Jörn Rüsen 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.
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List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Jörn Rüsen, 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 Jörn Rüsen Notes on Contributors Index
List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Jörn Rüsen, 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 Jörn Rüsen Notes on Contributors Index
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