Utopian Thinking in Law, Politics, Architecture and Technology : : Hope in a Hopeless World / / edited by Bart van Klink, Marta Soniewicka, Leon van den Broeke.

• TeilnehmendeR: Broeke, Leon van den,; Soniewicka, Marta,; Klink, Bart van,
• Place / Publishing House: Cheltenham, England : : Edward Elgar Publishing,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (404 pages)

"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 perspective."

Table of Contents

Contents :PART I UTOPIA AND THE LAW : SKETCHES FORA NEW SOCIETY1 Introduction : A return to utopia 2Bart van Klink, Marta Soniewicka and Leon van den Broeke2 Finding hope in hopeless times 19 Lynne Copson3 The rule of law : Between ideology and utopia 38Bart van Klink4 Legislative hope and utopia 59Carinne Elion-Valter5 A secular form of grace : A place for utopia in law 76Leon van den Broeke : PART II UTOPIAN POLITICS : REDEMPTION OR A'RECIPE FOR BLOODSHED'?6 The politics of hope : Utopia as an exercise in social imagination 96Marta Soniewicka7 The utopian ideals of the political order of the European Union : Is a European republic possible? 116Jan Willem Sap8 'The coming community' : Agamben's vision of messianic politics 134 Oliver W. Lembcke9 The allure of utopia : Klaas Schilder's stress on therelevance of hic et nunc 150George Harinck10 The Islamic state 167Maurits Berger : PART III UTOPIA IN ARCHITECTURE ANDTECHNOLOGY : THE QUEST FOR PERFECTION11 An ideal city vs 21st-century pragmatism 187Ernestyna Szpakowska-Loranc12 Planning utopia 207 Danielle Chevalier and Yannis Tzaninis 13 Technological utopias : Promises of the unlimited 226 Marc J. de Vries14 A better way of being? Human rights, transhumanism and'the utopian standpoint of man' 245Britta van Beers15 The posthuman : Around the vanishing point of utopia 266Anna Bugajska16 Being an agent in a robot and artificial intelligence age : Potentiality or dystopia? 284 Zeynep İspir and Şükrü Keleş : Index.