The History Of Utopian Thought

Author : Joyce Oramel Hertzler
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1375905643

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The History of Utopian Thought by Joyce Oramel Hertzler Pdf

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Author : Joyce Oramel Hertzler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000734751

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The History of Utopian Thought by Joyce Oramel Hertzler Pdf

This book, originally published in 1923, embodies two related and yet distinct types of sociological endeavour. It is a study in the history of social thought, a field which had only been receiving serious and widespread attention in recent years, and attempts to give an historical cross-section of representative Utopian thought at the time. But it is also a study in social idealism, a study in the origin, selection and potency of those social ideas and ideals that occasional and usually exceptional men conceive, with particular emphasis upon their relation to social progress. It was the first book that attempted to give an unprejudiced, systematic treatment of the social Utopias as a whole.

Author : Frank Edward MANUEL,Fritzie Prigohzy Manuel,Frank Edward Manuel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 907 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674040564

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Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank Edward MANUEL,Fritzie Prigohzy Manuel,Frank Edward Manuel Pdf

The authors have structured five centuries of utopian invention by identifying successive constellations, groups of thinkers joined by common social and moral concerns. Within this framework they analyze individual writings, in the context of the author's life and of the socio-economic, religious, and political exigencies of his time.

Author : Joyce Oramel Hertzler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Idealism
ISBN : OCLC:1154270813

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The History of Utopian Thought by Joyce Oramel Hertzler Pdf

Author : Joyce Oramel Hertzler
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1528062809

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The History of Utopian Thought (Classic Reprint) by Joyce Oramel Hertzler Pdf

Excerpt from The History of Utopian Thought In the second part Of this work we will appraise and analyze the Utopias, their writers, and their utopianism and the role of ideas and ideals contained therein. This program also de mands an investigation as to any contributions they have made in human advance, and any visible influence Of their potency. Of course, it also necessitates an analysis Of their shortcomings. Finally, it involves a treatment Of the effect Of the evolutionary conception and the theory Of history which came with it, on the utopian idea and the consequent changes in the type Of Utopias. Throughout it is essentially a study Of social ideas and ideals, - the influence Of environment and events in producing them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : JOYCE ORAMEL. HERTZLER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033144401

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HISTORY OF UTOPIAN THOUGHT by JOYCE ORAMEL. HERTZLER Pdf

Author : Thomas More
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547685586

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Utopia by Thomas More Pdf

Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.

Author : Zsolt Cziganyik
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Gregory Claeys
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Utopias
ISBN : 0500251746

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Searching for Utopia by Gregory Claeys Pdf

An illustrated history of a perennially powerful idea: the quest for the ideal society from classical times to the present day.

Author : Howard P. Segal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781118234310

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Utopias by Howard P. Segal Pdf

This brief history connects the past and present of utopianthought, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, right up topresent day visions of cyberspace communities and paradise. Explores the purpose of utopias, what they reveal about thesocieties who conceive them, and how utopias have changed over thecenturies Unique in including both non-Western and Western visions ofutopia Explores the many forms utopias have taken – propheciesand oratory, writings, political movements, world's fairs, physicalcommunities – and also discusses high-tech and cyberspacevisions for the first time The first book to analyze the implicitly utopian dimensions ofreform crusades like Technocracy of the 1930s and ModernizationTheory of the 1950s, and the laptop classroom initiatives of recentyears

Author : Russell Jacoby
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Distopies
ISBN : 9780231128957

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Picture Imperfect by Russell Jacoby Pdf

"The choice we have is not between reasonable proposals and an unreasonable utopianism. Utopian thinking does not undermine or discount real reforms. Indeed, it is almost the opposite: practical reforms depend on utopian dreaming."--Russell Jacoby, Picture Imperfect Utopianism suffers from an image problem: A recent exhibition on utopias in Paris and New York included photographs of Hitler's Mein Kampf and a Nazi concentration camp. Many observers judge utopians and their sympathizers as foolhardy dreamers at best and murderous totalitarians at worst. However, as noted social critic and historian Russell Jacoby argues in this salient, polemical, and innovative work, not only has utopianism been unfairly characterized, a return to an iconoclastic utopian spirit is vital for today's society. Shaped by the works of Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Gustav Landauer, and other predominantly Jewish thinkers, iconoclastic utopianism revives society's dormant political imagination and offers hope for a better future. Writing against the grain of history, Jacoby reexamines the anti-utopian mindset and identifies how utopian thought came to be regarded with such suspicion. He challenges standard readings of such anti-utopian classics as 1984 and Brave New World and offers stinging critiques of the influential liberal and anti-utopian theorists Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, and Karl Popper. He argues that these thinkers mistakenly equate utopianism with totalitarianism. The reputation of utopian thought has also suffered from the failures of, what Jacoby terms, the blueprint utopian tradition and its oppressive emphasis on detailing all aspects of society and providing fantastic images of the future. In contrast, the iconoclastic utopians, like those who follow God's prohibition against graven images, resist both the blueprinters' obsession with detail and the modern seduction of images. Jacoby suggests that by learning from the hopeful spirit of iconoclastic utopians and their willingness to accept new possibilities for society, we open ourselves to new and more imaginative ideas of the future.

Author : Jörn Rüsen,Michael Fehr,Thomas Rieger
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1845453042

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Thinking Utopia by Jörn Rüsen,Michael Fehr,Thomas Rieger Pdf

After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is time to rehabilitate utopian thought. The political concept of Utopia that has given its name to these transcendental projections onto the world has been too narrow to describe and analyze the moving forces of the mind perceiving human existence beyond reality. By broadening the perspectives of utopian studies, these essays enable the reader to reconstruct scholarly paradigms and strategies of utopian, complex and holistic thinking in modern cosmology, philosophy, sociology, in literary, historical and political sciences, and to compare traditions and ways of Western utopian thought to the practice in the East.

Author : S. D. Chrostowska,James D. Ingram
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231544313

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Political Uses of Utopia by S. D. Chrostowska,James D. Ingram Pdf

Utopia has long been banished from political theory, framed as an impossible—and possibly dangerous—political ideal, a flawed social blueprint, or a thought experiment without any practical import. Even the "realistic utopias" of liberal theory strike many as wishful thinking. Can politics think utopia otherwise? Can utopian thinking contribute to the renewal of politics? In Political Uses of Utopia, an international cast of leading and emerging theorists agree that the uses of utopia for politics are multiple and nuanced and lie somewhere between—or, better yet, beyond—the mainstream caution against it and the conviction that another, better world ought to be possible. Representing a range of perspectives on the grand tradition of Western utopianism, which extends back half a millennium and perhaps as far as Plato, these essays are united in their interest in the relevance of utopianism to specific historical and contemporary political contexts. Featuring contributions from Miguel Abensour, Étienne Balibar, Raymond Geuss, and Jacques Rancière, among others, Political Uses of Utopia reopens the question of whether and how utopianism can inform political thinking and action today.

Author : Frank Edward Manuel,Fritzie Prigohzy Manuel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : 0674931866

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Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank Edward Manuel,Fritzie Prigohzy Manuel Pdf

Ranging over several centuries, this history of utopian thought describes the thinkers and the dreamers (and their visions of an ideal social order) who have left their mark on the thought of later generations

Author : Michael J. Griffin,Tom Moylan
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 3039109138

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Exploring the Utopian Impulse by Michael J. Griffin,Tom Moylan Pdf

A series of essays by an international and trans-disciplinary group of contributors which explores the nature and extent of the utopian impulse. Working across a range of historical periods and cultures, the book investigates key aspects of utopian theory, texts, and socio-political practices.