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Visions Of Utopia
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Author : Edward Rothstein
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2003-02-06
Visions Of Utopia written by Edward Rothstein and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02-06 with Architecture categories.
From the sex-free paradise of the Shakers to the worker's paradise of Marx, utopian ideas seem to have two things in common--they all are wonderfully plausible at the start and they all end up as disasters. In Visions of Utopia, three leading cultural critics--Edward Rothstein, Martin Marty, and Herbert Muschamp--look at the history of utopian thinking, exploring why they fail and why they are still worth pursuing. Rothstein contends that every utopia is really a dystopia-- one that overlooks the nature of humanity and the impossibilities of paradise. He traces the ideal in politics and technology and suggests that only in art--and especially in music--does the desire for utopia find satisfaction. Marty examines several models of utopia--from Thomas More's to a 1960s experimental city that he helped to plan--to show that, even though utopias can never be realized, we should not be too quick to condemn them. They can express dimensions of the human spirit that might otherwise be stifled and can plant ideas that may germinate in more realistic and practical soil. Muschamp looks at Utopianism as exemplified in two different ways: the Buddhist tradition and the work of visionary Viennese architect Adolph Loos. Utopian thinking embodies humanity's noblest impulses, yet it can lead to horrors such as Nazi Germany and the Soviet Regime. In Visions of Utopia, these leading thinkers offer an intriguing look at the paradoxes of paradise.
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Author : Laszlo Szechenyi
language : en
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Release Date : 1998-04-30
Visions Of Utopia written by Laszlo Szechenyi and has been published by Universal-Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-04-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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Author : Fred E. Baumann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-06-19
Visions Of Utopia written by Fred E. Baumann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-19 with Utopias categories.
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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.
Visions Of Utopia
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Author : László Széchényi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Visions Of Utopia written by László Széchényi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Hungarians categories.
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Author : Andrew Christofides
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Visions Of Utopia written by Andrew Christofides and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Painting, Abstract categories.
Visions Of Utopia In Switzerland
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Author : Joy Charnley
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Release Date : 2000
Visions Of Utopia In Switzerland written by Joy Charnley and has been published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Conservatism categories.
The constitutional reform of 1848, which created the present political structures and legal system of Switzerland, bordered on the ideal in the regulation of human affairs, but has been adjusted over the years in the light of changing circumstances. Arguably, the political arrangements which enable the cultures of Switzerland to live together in relative harmony can be viewed in the year 2000, when Europe remains scarred by repression and violence between ethnic and language groups, as being closer to Utopia than arrangements obtaining in other places. The essays in this third volume of Occasional Papers in Swiss Studies discuss differing notions of Utopia from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries in relation to Switzerland and the often chastening confrontation of these notions with reality. Following on the constitutional reform put in place in 2000, Visions of Utopia in Switzerland aims to set in context the current debate about the kind of society Switzerland wishes to become - isolationist or open to Europe, narrowly traditional or widely multicultural.
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Author : III Jasper Sumner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-08-10
Visions Of Utopia written by III Jasper Sumner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-10 with Political Science categories.
Visions of Utopia: A Political Theory Anthology approaches political theory through analysis of the modern ideologies that shape our experience of the world today. The reading selections shed light on the significant utopian elements in political theory as a whole as well as the "non-utopian" traditions that have dominated modern political and moral discourse. The anthology features the writing of seminal political thinkers including Plato and Aristotle, Thomas More, Marx and Engels, Locke, Rousseau, Adam Smith, and Thomas Hobbes. More recent political thought is represented by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and B.F. Skinner. Students become familiar with communitarianism and the utopian universe, liberal and conservative reactions to utopianism, the feminist, environmentalist, and dystopian views of utopianism. Organized and designed from a utopian methodological perspective, Vision of Utopia is well-suited to introductory courses in political theory, philosophy, and global studies.
A World That Works For Everybody
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Author : Marvin Surowitz
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2010-06-16
A World That Works For Everybody written by Marvin Surowitz and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-16 with Self-Help categories.
A book about a vision of Utopia. Our future world, and how we can make it happen. 'Marvin Marvin' and Buckminster Fuller.
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Author : Warren Feeney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Visions Of Utopia written by Warren Feeney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Art, New Zealand categories.