Science In Utopia
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Science In Utopia
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Author : Nell Eurich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
Science In Utopia written by Nell Eurich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Utopias categories.
Nineteen Eighty Four Science Between Utopia And Dystopia
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Author : E. Mendelsohn
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Nineteen Eighty Four Science Between Utopia And Dystopia written by E. Mendelsohn and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with History categories.
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.
Science In Utopia
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Author : Nell Eurich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
Science In Utopia written by Nell Eurich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Science categories.
Utopian Literature And Science
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Author : Patrick Parrinder
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-08-11
Utopian Literature And Science written by Patrick Parrinder and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Scientific progress is usually seen as a precondition of modern utopias, but science and utopia are frequently at odds. Ranging from Galileo's observations with the telescope to current ideas of the post-human and the human-animal boundary, this study brings a fresh perspective to the paradoxes of utopian thinking since Plato.
Astrofuturism
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Author : De Witt Douglas Kilgore
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2010-08-03
Astrofuturism written by De Witt Douglas Kilgore and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space is the first full-scale analysis of an aesthetic, scientific, and political movement that sought the amelioration of racial difference and social antagonisms through the conquest of space. Drawing on the popular science writing and science fiction of an eclectic group of scientists, engineers, and popular writers, De Witt Douglas Kilgore investigates how the American tradition of technological utopianism responded to the political upheavals of the twentieth century. Founded in the imperial politics and utopian schemes of the nineteenth century, astrofuturism envisions outer space as an endless frontier that offers solutions to the economic and political problems that dominate the modern world. Its advocates use the conventions of technological and scientific conquest to consolidate or challenge the racial and gender hierarchies codified in narratives of exploration. Because the icon of space carries both the imperatives of an imperial past and the democratic hopes of its erstwhile subjects, its study exposes the ideals and contradictions endemic to American culture. Kilgore argues that in the decades following the Second World War the subject of race became the most potent signifier of political crisis for the predominantly white and male ranks of astrofuturism. In response to criticism inspired by the civil rights movement and the new left, astrofuturists imagined space frontiers that could extend the reach of the human species and heal its historical wounds. Their work both replicated dominant social presuppositions and supplied the resources necessary for the critical utopian projects that emerged from the antiracist, socialist, and feminist movements of the twentieth century. This survey of diverse bodies of literature conveys the dramatic and creative syntheses that astrofuturism envisions between people and machines, social imperatives and political hope, physical knowledge and technological power. Bringing American studies, utopian literature, popular conceptions of race and gender, and the cultural study of science and technology into dialogue, Astrofuturism will provide scholars of American culture, fans of science fiction, and readers of science writing with fresh perspectives on both canonical and cutting-edge astrofuturist visions.
Utopian And Science Fiction By Women
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Author : Jane L. Donawerth
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 1994-07-01
Utopian And Science Fiction By Women written by Jane L. Donawerth and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-07-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection speaks to common themes and strategies in women's writing about their different worlds, from Margaret Cavendish's seventeenth-century Blazing World of the North Pole to the "men-less" islands of the French writer Scudery to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century utopias of Shelley and Gaskell, and science fiction pulps, finishing with the more contemporary feminist fictions of Le Guin, Wittig, Piercy, and Michison. It shows that these fictions historically speak to each other and together amount to a literary tradition of women's writing about a better place.
Scientific Utopia In New Atlantis By Francis Bacon
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Author : Silviya Stamenova
language : de
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2018-06-12
Scientific Utopia In New Atlantis By Francis Bacon written by Silviya Stamenova and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Essay aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The issues considered in this essay reflect the notion of scientific utopia in New Atlantis by Francis Bacon. Considered the father of the empirical scientific method, he wrote the "New Atlantis" in 1623. The work expresses his ideals interwoven into the story of an unknown island. In other words, its potential as independent land mastered by science and kept secret by the rest of the world has been expressed. It has also been argued that the prosperity of the Bensalem residents rests on technical progress, because for Bacon the means of eliminating social contradictions is economic prosperity. Consequently, science was a means not an end in itself.
Time Machine Utopia Or Science Fiction
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Author : Kristijan Zrinski
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2013-06-26
Time Machine Utopia Or Science Fiction written by Kristijan Zrinski and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-26 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 3,0, University of Trier, language: English, abstract: This term paper deals with the question which literary genre does “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells fits best into. Should it be seen as a dystopian novel or should it be rather classified as a science fictional one and why is it so hard to classify? As the novel shows characteristics for either genres, the novel has to be analysed accurately. In order do so and find an answer to the main question I will point out and examine relevant passages in the text which will help classifying Wells work. Therefore, it is essential to first of all define both literary genres. These definitions are to include the origin of the genre, main characteristics as well as appropriate “background information”. As already mentioned, the definitions will be followed by an in-depth analysis of significant text passages. Finally, my conclusion is intended to sum up the most important findings and aims to present a classification based on the analysis in the main part.
Defined By A Hollow
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Author : Darko Suvin
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2010
Defined By A Hollow written by Darko Suvin and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Aufsatzsammlung categories.
Darko Suvin explores utopian horizons in fiction & utopian/dystopian readings of historical reality since the 1970s, focusing in the United States & United Kingdom, but drawing also on French, German & Russian sources.
Social Science And Utopia
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Author : Barbara Goodwin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Social Science And Utopia written by Barbara Goodwin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Political Science categories.