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In the wake of the monstrous projects of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others in the twentieth century, the idea of utopia has been discredited. Yet, historian Jay Winter suggests, alongside the "major utopians" who murdered millions in their attempts to transform the world were disparate groups of people trying in their own separate ways to imagine a radically better world. This original book focuses on some of the twentieth-century's "minor utopias" whose stories, overshadowed by the horrors of the Holocaust and the Gulag, suggest that the future need not be as catastrophic as the past.The book is organized around six key moments when utopian ideas and projects flourished in Europe: 1900 (the Paris World's Fair), 1919 (the Paris Peace Conference), 1937 (the Paris exhibition celebrating science and light), 1948 (the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), 1968 (moral indictments and student revolt), and 1992 (the emergence of visions of global citizenship). Winter considers the dreamers and the nature of their dreams as well as their connections to one another and to the history of utopian thought. By restoring minor utopias to their rightful place in the recent past, Winter fills an important gap in the history of social thought and action in the twentieth century.
Utopias --- Utopian socialism --- Socialism, Utopian --- Socialism --- History
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Matti Kurikka (1863-1915) is a multi-dimensional and controversial character in Finnish history. He was a playwright, a journalist, a socialist, and a theosophist, as well as a speaker for sexual emancipation and women's rights. Kurikka was born in Ingria, and his activities spanned not only Finland, but also Australia and North America, in both of which he led utopian communities. This biographical study explores Kurikka as a literary and political figure and a builder of utopias, whose life opens fascinating views on the societal and cultural currents of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book critically re-evaluates earlier research on Kurikka and highlights forgotten phases of his life by using new source materials found in three continents. The sources include digitized newspapers and periodicals, Kurikka's plays and non-fictional books, oral history, and political cartoons.
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Utopian Movements and Ideas of the Great Depression explores several lesser known movements for change and reform in the Great Depression Era of the 1930s. It includes studies of a few communal societies, proposals for reform, and analyses of several books written in the 1930s that propose solutions to the nation's economic ills. Arguably, America has been a Utopian experiment from its beginning; these movements and ideas of the 1930s were the latest manifestation of that experiment to that time. Despite their lack of obvious success,
Utopias --- Utopian socialism --- Socialism, Utopian --- Socialism --- Ideal states --- States, Ideal --- Utopian literature --- Political science --- Voyages, Imaginary --- Dystopias --- History --- United States --- Intellectual life --- Social conditions
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In his book Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions (2007), Fredric Jameson analyzes the multiple components of utopia and the possibility of achieving utopia in the near future. As this book argues, however, human civilization will never achieve utopia unless humans reach a state of pure consciousness in which they will use their full mental potential and avoid making blunders in life that would undermine the possibility of a utopia. This book develops a non-teleological, comparative poetics between Western and Sanskrit literary traditions by analyzing their opposing theories of language, consciousness and meaning. This comparison seeks to demonstrate the complementary nature of their two perspectives: the objective, conceptual emphasis of contemporary Western theory; and the subjective experiential emphasis of Sanskrit poetics. The potential contribution to the West of Indian culture in general, and Sanskrit poetics in particular, centers on the phenomenon of direct experience. Without the direct experience of pure consciousness, humans will not achieve a state of utopia because they will remain entangled in materialism without access to idealism or spiritualism available only through the direct experience of the unity of pure consciousness or the void of conceptions.
Utopias in literature. --- Utopian literature --- Consciousness in literature.
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Cet ouvrage offre à la lecture et à l’étude, des aspects variés, philosophiques, historiques et sociaux-culturels du saint-simonisme, en s’efforçant de ne pas séparer les idées des hommes. Les deux premiers articles s’attachent à la philosophie profonde de la pensée saint-simonienne. L’article de Jean-René Derré, « Lamennais et la pensée saint-simonienne » soulève la question des rapports entre religion et vie économique, entre charité et justice, pour conclure que le saint-simonisme tente de dépasser le spiritualisme et le matérialisme vers un humanisme moderne. Michel Espagne situe sa réflexion au cœur d’une problématique philosophique : « Le saint-simonisme est-il jeune hégélien ? » Lucette Czyba et Christine Planté déplacent l’analyse vers la question capitale des rapports entre le saint-simonisme et la Femme, ou plus précisément, vers le féminisme d’après 1830. Anne-Marie Thiesse prospecte, elle, le romanesque feuilletoniste, elle y décèle les traces ou le levain amortis du saint-simonisme. Enfin Philippe Régnier fournit au lecteur un « État présent des Études saint-simoniennes ».
Saint-Simon, de, Claude Henry de Rouvray --- Utopian socialism --- History --- 321.01 --- -#SBIB:321H60 --- Socialism, Utopian --- Socialism --- Algemene staatsleer. Politieke filosofie. Staatsleer. Staatstheorie --- -Westerse politieke en sociale theorieën vanaf de 19e eeuw: socialisme, marxisme, communisme, anarchisme --- 321.01 Algemene staatsleer. Politieke filosofie. Staatsleer. Staatstheorie --- -Socialism, Utopian --- -Utopian socialism --- Saint-Simonisme. --- Utopian socialism - France - History - 19th century --- philosophie --- pensée --- histoire intellectuelle
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Josephson's intriguing study of how technology both helped and hindered this effort asks new and important questions about the crucial issues inextricably linked with the development and diffusion of technology in any sociopolitical system.
Technology --- Technology and civilization. --- Utopian socialism --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects. --- History --- Socialism, Utopian --- Civilization and machinery --- Civilization and technology --- Machinery and civilization --- Socialism --- Civilization --- Social history --- Philosophy
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The idea of a better society as associated with the communal idea is investigated from both theoretical perspectives and through contemporary experiences around the world. This idea leaves nobody indifferent. Whatever the hardship that its concretization implies, however, once it does materialize, it cannot, as such avoid new challenges, tensions and unexpected claims. This means, at varying degrees, negations of, and removals from, the “utopian inspiration”. Humans are able to create unprecedented conditions of life under most ambitious inspirations, but are unable to safeguard their achievements from change, alterations and contradictions. In this, however, another aspect of the utopian realizations is that they ultimately leave room for new utopist thinking and enrolment. As far, indeed, the utopian inspiration draws its vitality from potent civilizational codes, its renewal from ashes is as unavoidable as its self-betrayal through materialization. Contributors included: Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Rami Degany, Amitai Etzioni, Maria Fölling-Albers, Yiftah Goldman, Ruth Kark, Yossi Katz, John Lehr, Graham Meltzer, Bill Metcalf, Timothy Miller, Yaacov Oved, Michal Palgi, Donald E. Pitzer, Shulamit Reinharz, Lyman Tower Sargent, György Széll, Menachem Topel, Katherine Trebeck, and Chris Warhurst.
Collective settlements. --- Communal living. --- Utopian socialism. --- Socialism, Utopian --- Socialism --- Communal settlements --- Communes --- Cooperative living --- Collective settlements --- Housing, Cooperative --- Communistic settlements --- Communism --- Cooperation --- Collective farms --- Communal living
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This collection addresses the important function of utopianism in social and political philosophy and includes debate on what its future role will be in a period dominated by dystopian nightmare scenarios.
Utopias. --- Utopies --- Ideal states --- States, Ideal --- Utopian literature --- Political science --- Socialism --- Voyages, Imaginary --- Dystopias --- Utopie
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Utopias. --- Utopias in literature. --- Utopian literature --- Ideal states --- States, Ideal --- Political science --- Socialism --- Voyages, Imaginary --- Dystopias
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