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Additional authors

1. Rüsen, Jörn.
2. Fehr, Michael.
3. Rieger, Thomas, 1964-

Description

1. xii, 312 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

1. The final bankruptcy of the great socialist experiment in Eastern Europe appeared to sound a death knell for utopian thought. In 'Thinking Utopia' an effort is made to rehabilitate the concept of political utopia, arguing that utopian ideas continue to be relevant in the modern world.

Series statement

1. Making sense of history

Uniform title

1. Making sense of history.

Subject

1. Utopias > Congresses
2. Utopias
3. Utopie

Genre/Form

1. Conference papers and proceedings.

Contents

1. The necessity of utopian thinking : a cross-national perspective / Lyman Tower Sargent -- Aspects of the Western utopian tradition / Krishan Kumar -- Visions of the future / Michael Thompson -- Utopia, contractualism, human rights / Richard Saage -- On the construction of worlds : technology and economy in European utopias / Wolfgang Pircher -- Bodies in utopia and utopian bodies in imperial China / Dorothy Ko -- Science, technology, and utopia : perspective of a computer-assisted evolution of humankind / Klaus Mainzer -- "Thinking about the unthinkable" : the virtual as a place of utopia / Claus Pias -- Natural utopianism in everyday life practice : an elementary theoretical model / Ulrich Oevermann -- Haunted by things : utopias and their consequences / Donald Preziosi -- Art, museum, utopia : five themes on an epistemological construction site / Michael Fehr -- Art, science, utopia in the early modern period / Wolfgang Braungart -- Utopiary / Rachel Weiss -- The utopian, East and West / Zhang Longxi -- Trauma : a dystopia of the spirit / Michael S. Roth -- From revolutionary to catastrophic utopia / Slavoj Zizek -- The narrative staging of image and counter-image : on the poetics of literary utopias / Wilhelm Vosskamp -- Rethinking utopia : a plea for a culture of inspiration / Jörn Rüsen.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. The essays of this volume are based on lectures and talks given at the interdisciplinary conference "Thinking Utopia", March 1-3, 2001, held by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Essen and the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen under the direction of Jörn Rüsen and Michael Fehr.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.