Utopian Horizons : : Ideology, Politics, Literature / / Zsolt Cziganyik.

The 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia has directed attention toward the importance of utopianism. This book investigates the possibilities of cooperation between the humanities and the social sciences in the analysis of 20th century and contemporary utopian phenomena. The papers deal with ma...

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Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • INTRODUCTION Utopianism: Literary and Political
  • PART ONE Utopia with a Political Focus
  • Ideology and Utopia: Karl Mannheim and Paul Ricoeur
  • When Does Utopianism Produce Dystopia?
  • From the Political Utopia to the Philosophical Utopia—and Rescuing the Political Utopia, on Second Thought
  • Third Way Utopianism: Anarcho-Democratic and Liberal Socialist Ideas in Central Europe
  • George Orwell, Soviet Studies, and the “Soviet Subjectivity” Debate
  • PART TWO Utopia with a Literary Focus
  • Marxist Utopianism and Modern Irish Drama, 1884–1904: William Morris, W. B. Yeats, and G. B. Shaw
  • Civil Religion as Utopian Ideology: A Case Study of H. G. Wells
  • Negative Utopia in Central Europe: Kazohinia and the Dystopian Political Climate of the 1930s
  • What They Were Going to Do About It: Huxley’s Peace Pamphlet in Pre-War Hungary
  • The City in Ruins: Post-9/11 Representations of Cataclysmic New York on Film
  • Realism and Utopianism Reconsidered: A Political Theoretical Reading of A Song of Ice and Fire
  • AFTERWORD
  • LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  • Index