Ideology And Utopia

Author : Karl Mannheim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136120282

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Ideology and Utopia by Karl Mannheim Pdf

Ideology and Utopia argues that ideologies are mental fictions whose function is to veil the true nature of a given society. They originate unconsciously in the minds of those who seek to stabilise a social order. Utopias are wish dreams that inspire the collective action of opposition groups which aim at the entire transformation of society. Mannheim shows these two opposing elements to dominate not only our social thought but even unexpectedly to penetrate into the most scientific theories in philosophy, history and the social sciences. This new edition contains a new preface by Bryan S. Turner which describes Mannheim's work and critically assesses its relevance to modern sociology. The book is published with a comprehensive bibliography of Mannheim's major works.

Author : Karl Mannheim
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415060540

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Ideology and Utopia by Karl Mannheim Pdf

A new edition of Karl Mannheim's classic work in which the concepts of 'ideology' and 'utopia' are examined as opposing and dominant societal influences.

Author : Lyman Tower Sargent
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191614422

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Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction by Lyman Tower Sargent Pdf

There are many debates about utopia - What constitutes a utopia? Are utopias benign or dangerous? Is the idea of utopianism essential to Christianity or heretical? What is the relationship between utopia and ideology? This Very Short Introduction explores these issues and examines utopianism and its history. Lyman Sargent discusses the role of utopianism in literature, and in the development of colonies and in immigration. The idea of utopia has become commonplace in social and political thought, both negatively and positively. Some thinkers see a trajectory from utopia to totalitarianism with violence an inevitable part of the mix. Others see utopia directly connected to freedom and as a necessary element in the fight against totalitarianism. In Christianity utopia is labelled as both heretical and as a fundamental part of Christian belief, and such debates are also central to such fields as architecture, town and city planning, and sociology among many others Sargent introduces and summarizes the debates over the utopia in literature, communal studies, social and political theory, and theology. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Zsolt Cziganyik
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789633862438

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Utopian Horizons by Zsolt Cziganyik Pdf

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 major problems of interpreting utopias, the relationship of utopia and ideology, and the highly problematic issue as to whether utopia necessarily leads to dystopia. Besides reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary utopian investigations, the eleven essays effectively represent the constructive attitudes of utopian thought, a feature that not only defines late 20th- and 21st-century utopianism, but is one of the primary reasons behind the rising importance of the topic. The volume’s originality and value lies not only in the innovative theoretical approaches proposed, but also in the practical application of the concept of utopia to a variety of phenomena which have been neglected in the utopian studies paradigm, especially to the rarely discussed Central European texts and ideologies.

Author : Stephanie N. Arel,Dan R. Stiver
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498577304

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Ideology and Utopia in the Twenty-First Century by Stephanie N. Arel,Dan R. Stiver Pdf

This edited work is spurred by the 30-year anniversary of the groundbreaking work by Paul Ricoeur, Lectures on Ideology and Utopia (1986)—and the 40-year anniversary of the original lectures (1975). Ricoeur took these concepts that continue to be enormously important in social and political analysis and connected them in a uniquely intricate dance. The ensuing interplay of these concepts provides a framework for a more deft and subtle evaluation than is common. Little has been done to engage Ricoeur’s skill in interpreting ideology and utopia or their creative tension, perhaps due to his significant contributions in other areas. When one combines Ricoeur’s intricate analyses of ideology and utopia, however, with his contributions in other areas of philosophy such as hermeneutics, anthropology, embodiment, and philosophy of religion, one has fertile grounds for reflection in many directions. The essays in this book draw on these resources not only to engage the strengths and weaknesses of Ricoeur’s original work, but they also expand his understanding in creative new directions such as the social imaginary, embodiment, gender theory, immigration, and extremist political rhetoric. The text will bring to the fore how this aspect of Ricoeur’s work has significance for the wider twenty-first century political landscape. Just as his original work, this book provides much-needed resources for critique of each term, along with their relationship to one another, while recognizing the positive dimension of their function.

Author : Xiaoping Wang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319911403

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Ideology and Utopia in China's New Wave Cinema by Xiaoping Wang Pdf

Ideology and Utopia in China’s New Wave Cinema investigates the ways in which New Wave filmmakers represent China in this age of neoliberal reform. Analyzing this paradigm shift in independent cinema, this text explores the historicity of the cinematic form and its cultural-political visions. Through a close reading of the narrative strategy of key films in New Wave Cinema, Xiaoping Wang studies the movement’s impact on film, literature, culture and politics.

Author : Nicholas M. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521620503

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Ideology and Utopia in the Poetry of William Blake by Nicholas M. Williams Pdf

Scholars have often drawn attention to William Blake's unusual sensitivity to his social context. In this book Nicholas Williams situates Blake's thought historically by showing how through the decades of a long and productive career Blake consistently responded to the ideas, writing, and art of contemporaries. Williams presents detailed readings of several of Blake's major poems alongside Rousseau's Emile, Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Paine's Rights of Man, Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, and Robert Owen's Utopian Experiments. In so doing, he offers revealing new insights into key Blake texts and draws attention to their inclusion of notions of social determinism, theories of ideology-critique, and Utopian traditions. Williams argues that if we are truly to understand ideology as it relates to Blake, we must understand the practical situation in which the ideological Blake found himself. His study is a revealing commentary on the work of one of our most challenging poets.

Author : Paul Ricœur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0231060483

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Lectures on Ideology and Utopia by Paul Ricœur Pdf

Essays cover Marx, Karl Mannheim, Max Weber, Clifford Geertz, Louis Althusser, Jurgen Habermas, Henri de Saint-Simon, and Charles Fourier

Author : Joseph Blenkinsopp
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110475296

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Essays on Judaism in the Pre-Hellenistic Period by Joseph Blenkinsopp Pdf

The essays deal with developments during the period from the liquidation of the Judean state to the conquests of Alexander the Great. This was a critical time in the Near East and the Mediterranean world in general. It marked the end of the great Semitic empires until the rise of Islam in the seventh century A.D.,decisive changes in religion, with appeal to a creator-deity in Deutero-Isaiah, Babylonian Marduk cult, and Zoroastrianism.For the survivors of the Babylonian conquest in a post-collapse society the issue of continuity, with different groups claiming continuity with the past and possession of the traditions, there developed a situation favourable to the emergence of sects. The most pressing question, however, was what to do faced with the overwhelming power of empire, first Babylonian, then Persian. Finally, with the extinction of the native dynasty and the entire apparatus of a nation-state, the temple became the focus and emblem of group identity.

Author : Ove Jakobsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351794008

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Transformative Ecological Economics by Ove Jakobsen Pdf

When we look at the state of the world today, what is most evident is the fact that the major problems of our time – energy, environment, economy, climate change and social justice – cannot be understood in isolation. They are interconnected problems, which means that they require corresponding systemic solutions. Today’s global economy has brought about critical distress for ecosystems and societies and we have to go to the very root of the problems to find a way out. This volume develops a synthesized interpretation of ecological economics integrating different levels: (economic) system, (business) practice and the (economic) actor. It discusses how changes on a systems level are connected to changes in practice and development of individual consciousness. Transformative Ecological Economics delves into the insight and knowledge from different sources of inspiration (thermodynamics, Darwinism, anthroposophy and Buddhism) as well as into an integrated story describing and illustrating the core ideas, principles and values that characterize a utopian society anchored in ecological economics. Implementation of the deep changes demanded depends on our ability to write a new story, a utopian one for sure, but one which is in accordance with and based on the reality in which we live. This book will be of interest to those who study ecological economics, political economy and environmental economics.

Author : Karl Mannheim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Ideology
ISBN : OCLC:863593997

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Ideology and Utopia by Karl Mannheim Pdf

Author : Karl Mannheim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Ideology
ISBN : OCLC:1091858178

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Ideology and Utopia by Karl Mannheim Pdf

Author : Mikhail Suslov
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783838213613

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Geopolitical Imagination by Mikhail Suslov Pdf

In his timely book, Mikhail Suslov discusses contemporary Russian geopolitical culture and argues that a better knowledge of geopolitical concepts and fantasies is instrumental for understanding Russia’s policies. Specifically, he analyzes such concepts as “Eurasianism,” “Holy Russia,” “Russian civilization,” “Russia as a continent,” “Novorossia,” and others. He demonstrates that these concepts reached unprecedented ascendance in the Russian public debates, tending to overshadow other political and domestic discussions. Suslov argues that the geopolitical imagination, structured by these concepts, defines the identity of post-Soviet Russia, while this complex of geopolitical representations engages, at the same time, with the broader, international criticism of the Western liberal world order and aligns itself with the conservative defense of cultural authenticity across the globe. Geopolitical ideologies and utopias discussed in the book give the post-Soviet political mainstream the intellectual instruments to think about Russia’s exclusion—imaginary or otherwise—from the processes of a global world which is re-shaping itself after the end of the Cold War; they provide tools to construct the self-perception of Russia as a sovereign great-power, a self-sufficient civilization, and as one of the poles in a multipolar world; and they help to establish the Messianic vision of Russia as the beacon of order, tradition, and morality in a sea of chaos and corruption.

Author : Paul Ricoeur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0231060491

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Lectures on Ideology and Utopia by Paul Ricoeur Pdf

Essays cover Marx, Karl Mannheim, Max Weber, Clifford Geertz, Louis Althusser, Jurgen Habermas, Henri de Saint-Simon, and Charles Fourier

Author : Timothy Weiss,Timothy F. Weiss
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802089585

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Translating Orients by Timothy Weiss,Timothy F. Weiss Pdf

Weiss examines texts that reference Asian, North African, or Middle Eastern societies and their imaginaries, and, equally important, engage questions of individual and communal identity that issue from transformative encounters.