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Utopian Horizons

Author : Zsolt Cziganyik
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789633861813

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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.

Utopian Horizons

Author : Zsolt Cziganyik
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,7 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.

Utopian Horizons

Author : Zsolt Czigányik
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789633861820

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Utopian Horizons by Zsolt Czigányik 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.

Dark Horizons

Author : Tom Moylan,Raffaella Baccolini
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Dystopias
ISBN : 0415966140

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Dark Horizons by Tom Moylan,Raffaella Baccolini Pdf

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Dark Horizons

Author : Tom Moylan,Raffaella Baccolini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781317793557

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Dark Horizons by Tom Moylan,Raffaella Baccolini Pdf

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Cruising Utopia

Author : José Esteban Muñoz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814757284

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Cruising Utopia by José Esteban Muñoz Pdf

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The Racial Horizon of Utopia

Author : Edward K. Chan
Publisher : Ralahine Utopian Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 3034319169

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The Racial Horizon of Utopia by Edward K. Chan Pdf

This book surveys reimaginings of race by US American utopian novelists including Dorothy Bryant, Marge Piercy, Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler and Kim Stanley Robinson. It argues that our utopian dreams cannot be furthered unless we come to terms with the phenomenology of race and the impasse of the individual in liberal humanist democracy.

Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature

Author : Carter F. Hanson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000165951

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Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature by Carter F. Hanson Pdf

For a genre that imagines possible futures as a means of critiquing the present, utopian/dystopian fiction has been surprisingly obsessed with how the past is remembered. Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature: Memory of the Future examines modern and contemporary utopian/dystopian literature’s preoccupation with memory, asserting that from the nineteenth century onward, memory and forgetting feature as key problematics in the genre as well as sources of the utopian impulse. Through a series of close readings of utopian/dystopian novels informed by theory and dialectics, Hanson provides a case study history of how and why memory emerged as a problem for utopia, and how recent dystopian texts situate memory as a crucial mode of utopian agency. Hanson demonstrates that many modern and contemporary writers of the genre consider the presence of certain forms of memory as necessary to the project of imagining better societies or to avoiding possible dystopian outcomes.

The Promise of Memory

Author : Matthias Fritsch
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791465500

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The Promise of Memory by Matthias Fritsch Pdf

Argues for a closer connection between memories of injustice and promises of justice as a means to overcome violence.

Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia

Author : Daniel Chavez
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780826503671

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Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia by Daniel Chavez Pdf

The history of modern Nicaragua is populated with leaders promising a new and better day. Inevitably, as Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia demonstrates, reality casts a shadow and the community must look to the next leader. As an impoverished state, second only to Haiti in the Americas, Nicaragua has been the scene of cyclical attempts and failures at modern development. Author Daniel Chavez investigates the cultural and ideological bases of what he identifies as the three decisive movements of social reinvention in Nicaragua: the regimes of the Somoza family of much of the early to mid-twentieth century; the governments of the Sandinista party; and the present-day struggle to adapt to the global market economy. For each era, Chavez reveals the ways Nicaraguan popular culture adapted and interpreted the new political order, shaping, critiquing, or amplifying the regime's message of stability and prosperity for the people. These tactics of interpretation, otherwise known as meaning-making, became all-important for the Nicaraguan people, as they opposed the autocracy of Somocismo, or complemented the Sandinistas, or struggled to find their place in the Neoliberal era. In every case, Chavez shows the reflective nature of cultural production and its pursuit of utopian idealism.

Utopian Generations

Author : Nicholas Brown
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400826834

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Utopian Generations by Nicholas Brown Pdf

Utopian Generations develops a powerful interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework, within which neither will ever look the same. African literature has commonly been seen as representationally naïve vis-à-vis modernism, and canonical modernism as reactionary vis-à-vis postcolonial literature. What brings these two bodies of work together, argues Nicholas Brown, is their disposition toward Utopia or "the horizon of a radical reconfiguration of social relations.? Grounded in a profound rethinking of the Hegelian Marxist tradition, this fluently written book takes as its point of departure the partial displacement during the twentieth century of capitalism's "internal limit" (classically conceived as the conflict between labor and capital) onto a geographic division of labor and wealth. Dispensing with whole genres of commonplace contemporary pieties, Brown examines works from both sides of this division to create a dialectical mapping of different modes of Utopian aesthetic practice. The theory of world literature developed in the introduction grounds the subtle and powerful readings at the heart of the book--focusing on works by James Joyce, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Ford Madox Ford, Chinua Achebe, Wyndham Lewis, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Pepetela. A final chapter, arguing that this literary dialectic has reached a point of exhaustion, suggests that a radically reconceived notion of musical practice may be required to discern the Utopian desire immanent in the products of contemporary culture.

The Utopian Impulse in Latin America

Author : K. Beauchesne,A. Santos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230339613

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The Utopian Impulse in Latin America by K. Beauchesne,A. Santos Pdf

An exploration of the concept of utopia in Latin America from the earliest accounts of the New World to current cultural production, the carefully selected essays in this volume represent the latest research on the topic by some of the most important Latin Americanists working in North American academia today.

Beyond This Horizon

Author : Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625793140

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Beyond This Horizon by Robert A. Heinlein Pdf

Utopia has been achieved. For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty and war have been things found only in the histories. And applied genetics has given men and women the bodies of athletes and a lifespan of over a century. They should all have been very happy.... But Hamilton Felix is bored. And he is the culmination of a star line; each of his last thirty ancestors chosen for superior genes. Hamilton is, as far as genetics can produce one, the ultimate man. And this ultimate man can see no reason why the human race should survive, and has no intention of continuing the pointless comedy. However, Hamilton's life is about to become less boring. A secret cabal of revolutionaries who find utopia not just boring, but desperately in need of leaders who know just What Needs to be Done, are planning to revolt and put themselves in charge. Knowing of Hamilton's disenchantment with the modern world, they have recruited him to join their Glorious Revolution. Big mistake! The revolutionaries are about to find out that recruiting a superman is definitely not a good idea.... With an all new afterword by Tony Daniel. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies

Author : George E. Haggerty,Molly McGarry
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780470680575

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A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies by George E. Haggerty,Molly McGarry Pdf

A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies is the first single volume survey of current discussions taking place in this rapidly developing area of study. Recognizing the multidisciplinary nature of the field, the editors gather new essays by an international team of established and emerging scholars Addresses the politics, economics, history, and cultural impact of sexuality Engages the future of queer studies by asking what sexuality stands for, what work it does, and how it continues to structure discussions in various academic disciplines as well as contemporary politics

When the Horizons Close

Author : Elsa Tamez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:30000068560592

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When the Horizons Close by Elsa Tamez Pdf

"Latin American proverbs reflecting Qoheleth's wisdom".