Utopian thinking in law, politics, architecture and technology : : hope in a hopeless world / / edited by Bart van Kirk, Marta Soniewicka, Leon van den Broeke.
"This innovative book explores the role of utopian thinking in law and politics, including alternative forms of social engineering, such as technology and architecture. Building on Levitas' Utopia as Method, the topic of utopia is addressed within the book from a multidisciplinary perspect...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cheltenham, England ;, Northampton, Massachusetts : : Edward Elgar Publishing,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 pages) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- PART I Utopia and the law: Sketches for a new society
- 1. Introduction: A return to utopia
- 2. Finding hope in hopeless times
- 3. The rule of law: Between ideology and utopia
- 4. Legislative hope and utopia
- 5. A secular form of grace: A place for utopia in law
- PART II Utopian politics: Redemption or a 'recipe for bloodshed'?
- 6. The politics of hope: Utopia as an exercise in social imagination
- 7. The utopian ideals of the political order of the European Union: Is a European republic possible?
- 8. 'The coming community': Agamben's vision of messianic politics
- 9. The allure of utopia: Klaas Schilder's stress on the relevance of
- 10. The Islamic state
- PART III Utopia in architecture and technology: The quest for perfection
- 11. An ideal city vs 21st-century pragmatism
- 12. Planning utopia
- 13. Technological utopias: Promises of the unlimited
- 14. A better way of being? Human rights, transhumanism and 'the utopian standpoint of man'
- 15. The posthuman: Around the vanishing point of utopia
- 16. Being an agent in a robot and artificial intelligence age: Potentiality or dystopia?
- Index.