Between Utopia And Dystopia
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Author |
: Hanan Yoran |
Publisher |
: Lexington Books |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: 2010-04-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780739136492 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0739136496 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Between Utopia and Dystopia by : Hanan Yoran
Between Utopia and Dystopia offers a new interpretation of Erasmian humanism. It argues that Erasmian humanism created the identity of the universal and critical intellectual, but that this identity undermined the fundamental premises of humanist discourse. It closely reads several works of Erasmus and Thomas More, employing an interdisciplinary approach to the study of intellectual history, and adopting theoretical insights and methodological procedures from various disciplines.
Author |
: Michael D. Gordin |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 2010-08-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400834952 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400834953 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Utopia/Dystopia by : Michael D. Gordin
The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. Utopia/Dystopia offers a fresh approach to these ideas. Rather than locate utopias in grandiose programs of future totality, the book treats these concepts as historically grounded categories and examines how individuals and groups throughout time have interpreted utopian visions in their daily present, with an eye toward the future. From colonial and postcolonial Africa to pre-Marxist and Stalinist Eastern Europe, from the social life of fossil fuels to dreams of nuclear power, and from everyday politics in contemporary India to imagined architectures of postwar Britain, this interdisciplinary collection provides new understandings of the utopian/dystopian experience. The essays look at such issues as imaginary utopian perspectives leading to the 1856-57 Xhosa Cattle Killing in South Africa, the functioning racist utopia behind the Rhodesian independence movement, the utopia of the peaceful atom and its global dissemination in the mid-1950s, the possibilities for an everyday utopia in modern cities, and how the Stalinist purges of the 1930s served as an extension of the utopian/dystopian relationship. The contributors are Dipesh Chakrabarty, Igal Halfin, Fredric Jameson, John Krige, Timothy Mitchell, Aditya Nigam, David Pinder, Marci Shore, Jennifer Wenzel, and Luise White.
Author |
: Kōnstantinos Apostolou Doxiadēs |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 116 |
Release |
: 1966 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015006756038 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Between Dystopia and Utopia by : Kōnstantinos Apostolou Doxiadēs
Author |
: Jerome Huyler |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015034028038 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Locke in America by : Jerome Huyler
An account of the link between Locke's thought and the American Founding. The author argues that previous writers have misread Locke's influence on the Founders: he portrays the philosopher as a moderate 17th-century moralist advocating an individualism that fits well with classic republicanism.
Author |
: Katarzyna Ostalska |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2021-12-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000509960 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000509966 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Postworld In-Between Utopia and Dystopia by : Katarzyna Ostalska
This collection of essays offers global perspectives on feminist utopia and dystopia in speculative literature, film, and art, working from a range of intersectional approaches to examine key works and genres in both their specific cultural context and a wider, global, epistemological, critical background. The international, diverse contributions, including a Foreword by Gregory Claeys, draw upon posthumanism, speculative realism, speculative feminism, object-oriented ontology, new materialisms, and post-Anthropocene studies to propose alternative perspectives on gender, environment, as well as alternate futures and pasts rendered in fiction. Instead of binary divisions into utopia vs dystopia, the collection explores genres transcending this dichotomy, scrutinising the oeuvre of both established and emerging writers, directors, and critics. This is a rich and unique collection suitable for scholars and students studying feminist literature, media cultural studies, and women’s and gender studies.
Author |
: Samuel Butler |
Publisher |
: BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2019-09-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783734084805 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3734084806 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Erewhon Revisited by : Samuel Butler
Reproduction of the original: Erewhon Revisited by Samuel Butler
Author |
: E. Mendelsohn |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2012-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789400963405 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9400963408 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nineteen Eighty-Four: Science Between Utopia and Dystopia by : E. Mendelsohn
Just fifty years ago Julian Huxley, the biologist grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, published a book which easily could be seen to represent the prevail ing outlook among young scientists of the day: If I were a Dictator (1934). The outlook is optimistic, the tone playfully rational, the intent clear - allow science a free hand and through rational planning it could bring order out of the surrounding social chaos. He complained, however: At the moment, science is for most part either an intellectual luxury or the paid servant of capitalist industry or the nationalist state. When it and its results cannot be fitted into the existing framework, it and they are ignored; and furthermore the structure of scientific research is grossly lopsided, with over-emphasis on some kinds of science and partial or entire neglect of others. (pp. 83-84) All this the scientist dictator would set right. A new era of scientific human ism would provide alternative visions to the traditional religions with their Gods and the civic religions such as Nazism and fascism. Science in Huxley's version carries in it the twin impulses of the utopian imagination - Power and Order. Of course, it was exactly this vision of science which led that other grand son of Thomas Henry Huxley, the writer Aldous Huxley, to portray scientific discovery as potentially subversive and scientific practice as ultimately en slaving.
Author |
: Barbara Brodman |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 245 |
Release |
: 2019-06-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781683931683 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1683931688 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump by : Barbara Brodman
Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump:Images from Literature and Visual Arts treats literature, film, television series, and comic books dealing with utopian and dystopian worlds reflecting on or anticipating our current age. From Henry James’s dreamlike utopia of “The Great Good Place” to the psychotic world of Brett Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, from science fiction and recent horror films, television adaptations of books such as Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, and new series such as Black Mirror to the repressive Hitlerian dystopia of Katherine Burdekin’s Swastika Night, the contributors examine the development of scenarios that either prefigure the rise of individuals such as Donald J. Trump or suggest alternatives to them. Ultimately, one might say of the worlds presented here, viewed from different social and political perspectives: one person’s utopia is another’s dystopia. This is the fifth in a series of books edited by Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan, and published by Rowman & Littlefield with Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic (both in 2013) focused on the vampire legend in traditional and modern thought. The Supernatural Revamped: From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic (2016) examined a range of supernatural beings in literature, film, and other forms of popular culture. Apocalyptic Chic: Visions of the Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse in Literature and Visual Arts (2017) dealt with legends and images of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse in film and graphic arts, literature and lore from early to modern times, and from peoples and cultures around the world.
Author |
: Carrie Hintz |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 271 |
Release |
: 2013-10-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135373436 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135373434 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults by : Carrie Hintz
This volume examines a variety of utopian writing for children from the 18th century to the present day, defining and exploring this new genre in the field of children's literature. The original essays discuss thematic conventions and present detailed case studies of individual works. All address the pedagogical implications of work that challenges children to grapple with questions of perfect or wildly imperfect social organizations and their own autonomy. The book includes interviews with creative writers and the first bibliography of utopian fiction for children.
Author |
: Yasufumi Nakamori |
Publisher |
: Museum of Fine Arts (Houston) |
Total Pages |
: 120 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSD:31822039419130 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Utopia/dystopia by : Yasufumi Nakamori
"Utopia/Dystopia investigates how artists from the late nineteenth century to the present have used photograpic fragments or techniques to represent political, social, or cultural states of utopia or dystopia. This catalogue is heavily illustrated with works from the accompanying exhibition"--