Thinking utopia : : steps into other worlds / / edited by Jorn Rusen, Michael Fehr and Thomas W. Rieger.
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| Superior document: | Making sense of history |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : Berghahn Books,, 2005. |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Making sense of history.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (324 pages) :; illustrations. |
| Notes: | The essays of this volume are based on lectures and talks given at the interdisciplinary conference "Thinking Utopia", March 1-3, 2001, held by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Essen and the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen under the direction of Jorn Rusen and Michael Fehr. |
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Table of Contents:
- The necessity of utopian thinking : a cross-national perspective / Lyman Tower Sargent
- Aspects of the Western utopian tradition / Krishan Kumar
- Visions of the future / Michael Thompson
- Utopia, contractualism, human rights / Richard Saage
- On the construction of worlds : technology and economy in European utopias / Wolfgang Pircher
- Bodies in utopia and utopian bodies in imperial China / Dorothy Ko
- Science, technology, and utopia : perspective of a computer-assisted evolution of humankind / Klaus Mainzer
- "Thinking about the unthinkable" : the virtual as a place of utopia / Claus Pias
- Natural utopianism in everyday life practice : an elementary theoretical model / Ulrich Oevermann
- Haunted by things : utopias and their consequences / Donald Preziosi
- Art, museum, utopia : five themes on an epistemological construction site / Michael Fehr
- Art, science, utopia in the early modern period / Wolfgang Braungart
- Utopiary / Rachel Weiss
- The utopian, East and West / Zhang Longxi
- Trauma : a dystopia of the spirit / Michael S. Roth
- From revolutionary to catastrophic utopia / Slavoj Zizek
- The narrative staging of image and counter-image : on the poetics of literary utopias / Wilhelm Vosskamp
- Rethinking utopia : a plea for a culture of inspiration / Jorn Rusen.