Challenge Of A Utopia
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Back From Utopia
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Author : Hubert-Jan Henket
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Back From Utopia written by Hubert-Jan Henket and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Architecture categories.
The Modern Movement was a clarion call to embrace new building technologies, to meet the needs of the masses and to advance a new aesthetic of universality and openness. Pioneers like Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe created a sober, hard-edged architecture with a utopian urgency. Decades later, we have witnessed both the positive and the negative results of their endeavors. After the condemnations of the Modern Movement by postmodernist architects and critics, it is time for a balanced reassessment. Back from Utopiagathers more than 40 contributions by leading voices from the world of architecture and architectural history to reassess the modernist legacy across the world--from Eastern and Western Europe to India and Japan.
Challenge Of A Utopia
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language : en
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Release Date : 2002
Challenge Of A Utopia written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Conservación y restauración de sitios históricos categories.
Renaissance Utopias And The Problem Of History
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Author : Marina Leslie
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-15
Renaissance Utopias And The Problem Of History written by Marina Leslie and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with History categories.
Marina Leslie draws on three important early modern utopian texts—Thomas More's Utopia, Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, and Margaret Cavendish's Description of a New World Called the Blazing World—as a means of exploring models for historical transformation and of addressing the relationship of literature and history in contemporary critical practice. While the genre of utopian texts is a fertile terrain for historicist readings, Leslie demonstrates that utopia provides unstable ground for charting out the relation of literary text to historical context. In particular, she examines the ways that both Marxist and new historicist critics have taken the literary utopia not simply as one form among many available for reading historically but as a privileged form or methodological paradigm. Rather than approach utopia by mapping out a fixed set of formal features, or by tracing the development of the genre, Leslie elaborates a history of utopia as critical practice. Moreover, by taking every reading of utopia to be as historically symptomatic as the literary production it assesses, her book integrates readings of these three English Renaissance utopias with an analysis of the history and politics of reading utopia. Throughout, Leslie considers utopia as a fictional enactment of historical process and method. In her view, these early modern utopian constructions of history relate very closely to and impinge upon the narrative structures of history assumed by critical theory today.
The Jubilee Challenge
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Author : Hans Ucko
language : en
Publisher: World Council of Churches
Release Date : 1997
The Jubilee Challenge written by Hans Ucko and has been published by World Council of Churches this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Debt categories.
In everyday language, the word jubilee is used for any significant anniversary, especially the fiftieth. The roots of the term lie in the Old Testament jubilee laws (Leviticus 25), which provided that every fiftieth year land should be returned to its original owners, debts should be forgiven and slaves should be set free. The essays in this book, growing out of a Jewish-Christian dialogue at the WCC's Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, explore how the Jewish people understand this idea and its continuing relevance.
Re Searching Utopia
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Author : Cuno Brullmann
language : en
Publisher: Verlag Niggli AG
Release Date : 2014
Re Searching Utopia written by Cuno Brullmann and has been published by Verlag Niggli AG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Architecture categories.
This book sets out on a journey of discovery to find the contemporary role and possibilities offered by utopias.The great majority of architectural productions attempts to satisfy our everyday needs and to maintain the status quo of this basic requirement, an effort which is generally dubbed the state of the art. But architects of all times have simultaneously attempted to leave these limitations behind them and to propose entirely innovative paths, challenging the status quo of their environments and creating something entirely new. History has consistently demonstrated that utopias have always been developed against the most varied backgrounds: Utopias have appeared as a reaction to crisis situations, as visions for a new start or as carriers for innovation. During the 1960s and 70s in particular utopias served as a source of inspiration for many architects. In the following decades utopias continued to be a relevant issue in the humanities, but now tended to be pushed aside in architectural discourse. "Re-searching Utopia" sets out on a journey of discovery to find the contemporary role and possibilities offered by utopias.
Rethinking Utopia
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Author : David M. Bell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-01-20
Rethinking Utopia written by David M. Bell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-20 with Political Science categories.
Over five hundred years since it was named, utopia remains a vital concept for understanding and challenging the world(s) we inhabit, even in – or rather because of – the condition of ‘post-utopianism’ that supposedly permeates them. In Rethinking Utopia David M. Bell offers a diagnosis of the present through the lens of utopia and then, by rethinking the concept through engagement with utopian studies, a variety of ‘radical’ theories and the need for decolonizing praxis, shows how utopianism might work within, against and beyond that which exists in order to provide us with hope for a better future. He proposes paying a ‘subversive fidelity’ to utopia, in which its three constituent terms: ‘good’ (eu), ‘place’ (topos), and ‘no’ (ou) are rethought to assert the importance of immanent, affective relations. The volume engages with a variety of practices and forms to articulate such a utopianism, including popular education/critical pedagogy; musical improvisation; and utopian literature. The problems as well as the possibilities of this utopianism are explored, although the problems are often revealed to be possibilities, provided they are subject to material challenge. Rethinking Utopia offers a way of thinking about (and perhaps realising) utopia that helps overcome some of the binary oppositions structuring much thinking about the topic. It allows utopia to be thought in terms of place and process; affirmation and negation; and the real and the not-yet. It engages with the spatial and affective turns in the social sciences without ever uncritically being subsumed by them; and seeks to make connections to indigenous cosmologies. It is a cautious, careful, critical work punctuated by both pessimism and hope; and a refusal to accept the finality of this or any world.
Globalization And Utopia
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Author : P. Hayden
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-03-12
Globalization And Utopia written by P. Hayden and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-12 with Social Science categories.
Taking aim at the belief in utopia's demise, this collection of original essays offers a new look at the vibrant renewal of utopianism emerging in response to the challenges of globalization. It consider questions of hope and transformation associated with the utopian desire for social change.
John Gray And The Problem Of Utopia
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Author : John Hoffman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
John Gray And The Problem Of Utopia written by John Hoffman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Utopias categories.
This book explores the work of John Gray, controversial and widely read contemporary philosopher. This comprehensive volume links a critique of Gray's views on Marxism, humanism, and the Enlightenment--as well as his deep pessimism--with his position that attempts to tackle the core of issues like globalization and multiculturalism are hopelessly utopian. Challenging these and other assumptions in Gray's work in a clear and accessible way, John Hoffman focuses his criticism on the philosopher's traditionalist and problematic conception of utopia in the modern world.
The Feminist Utopia Project
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Author : Alexandra Brodsky
language : en
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Release Date : 2015-09-21
The Feminist Utopia Project written by Alexandra Brodsky and has been published by The Feminist Press at CUNY this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-21 with Social Science categories.
This “incredible addition to the feminist canon” brings together the most inspiring, creative, and courageous voices concerning modern women’s issues (Jessica Valenti, editor of Yes Means Yes). In this groundbreaking collection, more than fifty cutting-edge feminist writers—including Melissa Harris-Perry, Janet Mock, Sheila Heti, and Mia McKenzie—invite us to imagine a world of freedom and equality in which: An abortion provider reinvents birth control . . . The economy values domestic work . . . A teenage rock band dreams up a new way to make music . . . The Constitution is re-written with women’s rights at the fore . . . The standard for good sex is raised with a woman’s pleasure in mind . . . The Feminist Utopia Project challenges the status quo that accepts inequality and violence as a given, “offering playful, earnest, challenging, and hopeful versions of our collective future in the form of creative nonfiction, fiction, visual art, poetry, and more” (Library Journal).
Not Yet
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Author : Jamie Owen Daniel
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1997
Not Yet written by Jamie Owen Daniel and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Philosophy categories.
Ernst Bloch (1885–1977) is now recognized as a philosopher and cultural critic of the greatest importance, his subtle and profound developments of utopian Marxism as influential for the student New Left of the 1960s and 1970s as they were for the leftist movements of the twenties. Today, in the United States and Britain, his enormous body of work is attracting a new generation of readers: more translations are appearing, and his utopian thought is finding a new resonance in many different contexts. Several of the authors here address the centrality of a radically unconventional concept of utopia to Bloch's thought; others write on the question of memory and pedagogical theory. There is a Blochian reading of crime fiction, illuminating overviews of Bloch's work and an exploration of the stylistics of hope in Bloch's Spuren, as well as a translation of excerpts from that extraordinary book. The essays gathered are intended, above all, to recommend Bloch's work as a challenge to older models of historical materialism and utopian emancipation, and give specific examples of how that work can contribute to current debates about utopia, nationalism and collective memory, the liberatory content of popular cultural forms, and the complex relationship between ideology and everyday life. Together they provide a timely introduction to one of the most inspiring thinkers of the twentieth century. Contributors include: Klaus Berghahn, Tim Dayton, Vincent Geoghagan, Henry Giroux, David Kaufmann, Mary Layoun, Ruth Levitas, Peter McLaren, Tom Moylan, Darko Suvin and Jack Zipes.