Utopia Of Understanding

Author : Donatella Ester Di Cesare
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438442549

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Utopia of Understanding by Donatella Ester Di Cesare Pdf

Speaking and understanding can both be thought of as forms of translation, and in this way every speaker is an exile in language—even in one's mother tongue. Drawing from the philosophical hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer, the testimonies of the German Jews and their relation with the German language, Jacques Derrida's confrontation with Hannah Arendt, and the poetry of Paul Celan, Donatella Ester Di Cesare proclaims Auschwitz the Babel of the twentieth century. She argues that the globalized world is one in which there no longer remains any intimate place or stable dwelling. Understanding becomes a kind of shibboleth that grounds nothing, but opens messianically to a utopia yet to come.

Author : Donatella Di Cesare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 1461911095

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Utopia of Understanding by Donatella Di Cesare Pdf

A hermeneutics of language after Auschwitz.

Author : Thomas More
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Clint Jones,Cameron Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317027584

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The Individual and Utopia by Clint Jones,Cameron Ellis Pdf

Central to the idea of a perfect society is the idea that communities must be strong and bound together with shared ideologies. However, while this may be true, rarely are the individuals that comprise a community given primacy of place as central to a strong communal theory. This volume moves away from the dominant, current macro-level theorising on the subject of identity and its relationship to and with globalising trends, focusing instead on the individual’s relationship with utopia so as to offer new interpretive approaches for engaging with and examining utopian individuality. Interdisciplinary in scope and bringing together work from around the world, The Individual and Utopia enquires after the nature of the utopian as citizen, demonstrating the inherent value of making the individual central to utopian theorizing and highlighting the methodologies necessary for examining the utopian individual. The various approaches employed reveal what it is to be an individual yoked by the idea of citizenship and challenge the ways that we have traditionally been taught to think of the individual as citizen. As such, it will appeal to scholars with interests in social theory, philosophy, literature, cultural studies, architecture, and feminist thought, whose work intersects with political thought, utopian theorizing, or the study of humanity or human nature.

Author : Kai Gregor,Sergueï Spetschinsky
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443823555

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Concerning Peace by Kai Gregor,Sergueï Spetschinsky Pdf

How is peace to be understood? Does it make any sense to believe in its utopian realisation? Or is its failure necessary, its attempt always transforming into dystopia? Is there something to be saved in the ideal of utopian peace? Can one affirm that peace is in fact a pantopia—an omnipresent reality? The collection of essays, Concerning Peace: New Perspectives on Utopia, investigates these questions. Its method resides in both a philosophical understanding of peace, and its exemplification into concrete reality. Through the analysis of concrete examples of peace belonging to the diverse fields of metaphysics, politics, history and culture, the essays bring the idea of peace within our reach. Going from the particular to the general, from life to philosophy, the authors of the collected essays offer us more than an understanding of peace; they produce it before our eyes. If this book may interest peace and philosophy scholars, it was first intended for any citizen caring about the way the world must be, refusing to simply accept it as it is—for anyone willing to believe in the reality of utopia.

Author : Ross Dealy
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487534493

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Before Utopia by Ross Dealy Pdf

Before Utopia demonstrates that Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) is not, as is widely accepted, a rhetorical play of spirit but is instead built from a particular philosophy. That philosophy is not Platonism, but classical Stoicism. Deeply disturbed in his youth by the conviction that he needed to decide between a worldly and a monastic path, Thomas More was transformed in 1504 by Erasmus’ De taedio Iesu and Enchiridion. As a consequence, he married in 1505 and wholeheartedly committed himself to worldly affairs. His Lucian (1506), written after working directly with Erasmus, adopts the Stoic mindset; Erasmus’ Praise of Folly (1511) shows from beginning to end the workings of More’s life-changing Stoic outlook. More’s Utopia then goes on to systematically illustrate the Stoic unitary two-dimensional frame of thought within an imaginary New World setting. Before Utopia is not just a book about Thomas More. It is a book about intellectual history and the movement of ideas from the ancient world to the Renaissance. Ross Dealy emphasizes the continuity between Erasmus and More in their religious and philosophical thought, and above all the decisive influence of Erasmus on More.

Author : Irshad Manji
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015060813113

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Risking Utopia by Irshad Manji Pdf

Author : Karl Mannheim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Gregory Claeys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139828420

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The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature by Gregory Claeys Pdf

Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Chapters address the difficult definition of the concept of utopia, and consider its relation to science fiction and other literary genres. The volume takes an innovative approach to the major themes predominating within the utopian and dystopian literary tradition, including feminism, romance and ecology, and explores in detail the vexed question of the purportedly 'western' nature of the concept of utopia. The reader is provided with a balanced overview of the evolution and current state of a long-standing, rich tradition of historical, political and literary scholarship.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087903435

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Edutopias by Anonim Pdf

This unique collection of essays by well known scholars from around the world examines the role of edutopias in the utopian tradition, examining its sources and sites as a means for understanding the aims and purposes of education, for realizing its societal value, and for criticizing its present economic, technological and organizational modes.

Author : Cristian Ionut Vasilescu
Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1419635247

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Understanding Utopia and the Natural Rights in Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia by Cristian Ionut Vasilescu Pdf

The main argument is that the salient contrast, in Nozick's theory, between the natural rights theory combined with the entitlement theory, on the one hand, and the utopian theory, on the other hand, is not given by the fact that one method starts from certain moral assumptions, while the other from certain epistemological constraints. The argument for this affirmation is that the general principles that are agreed upon, in both cases, are quite similar (in our studied case, full background rights to liberty and property). Nevertheless, the difference is given by the fact that the first approach is based on an invisible hand process explanation, while the utopian approach is based on a contractarian explanation. On short, while the invisible hand process uses an unchangeable moral given from which all the implications should be derived, the contractarian method used by utopia is subject to local bargaining.

Author : Marianna Papastephanou
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087909765

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Educated Fear and Educated Hope by Marianna Papastephanou Pdf

This book examines the transformative potential of collaborative teacher research. Specifically, Kalin shares the perspectives of educators as they investigate the teaching and learning of drawing within their own elementary classrooms and within the context of an action research group.

Author : Diane P. Michelfelder,Richard E. Palmer,Professor Richard E Palmer
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791400085

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Dialogue and Deconstruction by Diane P. Michelfelder,Richard E. Palmer,Professor Richard E Palmer Pdf

Text of and reflection on the 1981 encounter between Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jacques Derrida, which featured a dialogue between hermeneutics in Germany and post-structuralism in France.

Author : Robert Nozick
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : 9780631197805

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Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick Pdf

Robert Nozicka s Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a powerful, philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our age ---- liberal, socialist and conservative.

Author : Karl Mannheim
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,5 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.