Utopia(s)
Author | : Maria do Rosário Monteiro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Utopias |
ISBN | : 9781351966818 |
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Author | : Maria do Rosário Monteiro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Utopias |
ISBN | : 9781351966818 |
Author | : Maria do Rosário Monteiro |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2016-11-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351966839 |
The idea of Utopia springs from a natural desire of transformation, of evolution pertaining to humankind and, therefore, one can find expressions of “utopian” desire in every civilization. Having to do explicitly with human condition, Utopia accompanies closely cultural evolution, almost as a symbiotic organism. Maintaining its roots deeply attached to ancient myths, utopian expression followed, and sometimes preceded cultural transformation. Through the next almost five hundred pages (virtually one for each year since Utopia was published) researchers in the fields of Architecture and Urbanism, Arts and Humanities present the results of their studies within the different areas of expertise under the umbrella of Utopia. Past, present, and future come together in one book. They do not offer their readers any golden key. Many questions will remain unanswered, as they should. The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities - UTOPIA(S) WORLDS AND FRONTIERS OF THE IMAGINARY were compiled with the intent to establish a platform for the presentation, interaction and dissemination of researches. It aims also to foster the awareness and discussion on the topics of Harmony and Proportion with a focus on different utopian visions and readings relevant to the arts, sciences and humanities and their importance and benefits for the community at large.
Author | : Paul Bloomfield |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 1932 |
Genre | : Utopias |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Phillip E. Wegner |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : American fiction |
ISBN | : 9780520228283 |
"Imaginary Communities is a beautiful treatment of utopian narratives as the quintessential genre for figuring social space in the modern nation-state. Wegner demonstrates a wide-ranging yet lighthanded philosophical learnedness, an urgent political conscience, and a deeply historical sense that narrative utopias are like specters that haunt particular moments of upheaval, crisis, and contradiction within modernity: whether the threshold between the vestiges of feudal agrarian society and early modern English capitalism, conflicts between the new oligarchy of industrializing late 19th c. United States and the increasing militancy of the labor movement, the uneven successes and failures of the Russian Revolution of 1905, or the mid-century Cold War struggles."--Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics "In this important book, Wegner argues that the historical work done by utopian narratives should be reconsidered, interrogated, challenged--and continued. Insightful and provocative, Imaginary Communities will prove a valuable contribution to our thinking about the politics of imagination."--Daniel Cottom, author of Cannibals and Philosophers: Bodies of Enlightenment "Phillip Wegner's Imaginary Communities represents a major intervention in our understanding not merely of utopian literature, but the very ways in which we view our world. His concept of utopian narrative as both vision and practice, as participating in "real" worlds, a force for change rooted in the social world "as it is" and as it is becoming and is "imagined," succeeds wonderfully well; his notion of the imperative of "failure" as a resource of hope is deeply humane. He provides a body of work worth thinking through and thinking with. As a historian, I find the historicity of his approach, the literary arch spanning from the origins of the European nation-state to our global present and future, compelling in its ambition and execution. Wegner moves well beyond the more tired moves of "new historicist" literary criticism: this is historicist scholarship in a new key."--James Epstein, author of Radical Expression: Political Language, Ritual, and Symbol in England, 1790-1850
Author | : R. Levitas |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2013-07-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1137314257 |
Utopia should be understood as a method rather than a goal. This book rehabilitates utopia as a repressed dimension of the sociological and in the process produces the Imaginary Reconstitution of Society, a provisional, reflexive and dialogic method for exploring alternative possible futures.
Author | : Richard Gerber |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2019-11-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1000734722 |
This book, originally published in 1955 and reissued in 1973, is a study of the flourishing of an ancient literary form which had only recently been recognized and systematically studied as a proper genre – utopian fiction. Beginning with the imaginary journeys of writers like H. G. Wells at the end of the nineteenth century, Professor Gerber traces the evolving themes and forms of the genre through their culmination in the sophisticated nightmares of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. It is a two-fold transformation: On the one hand, the optimism of social reformers whose visions of the future were nurtured by the theories of Darwin and the triumph of science and industry gradually gives way to the pessimism of moral philosophers alarmed at the power science and technology have put at the disposal of totalitarian rulers. On the other hand, the earlier writers’ dependence on framing and distancing devices for their stories and heavy emphasis on technical details give way to the subtlety of complex psychological novels whose artistry makes the reader a citizen of the tragic worlds depicted.
Author | : Glenn Negley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Utopias |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Glenn Negley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
"What we intend to present here is a representative sample of utopian thought in Western civilization. Very few utopias could be packed into our available space, and we agreed to the outset on three criteria to determine selection from the great abundance of material in this field"--preface.
Author | : David Fausett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas More |
Publisher | : Oxford Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1999-11-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0192838857 |
A unique edition of three early modern utopian texts, using a contemporary translation of More's Utopia and examining the Renaissance world view as shown by these writers. The edition includes the illustrative material that accompanied early editions of Utopia, full chronologies of the authors, notes, and glossary. - ;Thomas More: Utopia/ Francis Bacon: New Atlantis/Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines With the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More introduced into the English language not only a new word, but a new way of thinking about the gulf between what ought to be and what is. His Utopia is at once a scathing analysis of the shortcomings of his own society, a realistic suggestion for an alternative mode of social organization, and a satire on unrealistic idealism. Enormously influential, it remains a challenging as well as a playful text. This edition reprints Ralph Robinson's 1556 translation from More's original Latin together with letters and illustrations that accompanied early editions of Utopia. Utopia was only one of many early modern treatments of other worlds. This edition also includes two other, hitherto less accessible, utopian narratives. New Atlantis (1627) offers a fictional illustration of Francis Bacon's visionary ideal of the role that science should play in the modern society. Henry Neville's The Isle of Pines (1668), a precursor of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, engages with some of the sexual, racial, and colonialist anxieties of the end of the early modern period. Together these texts illustrate the diversity of the early modern utopian imagination, as well as the different purposes to which it could be put. -