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Dreams of peace and freedom : utopian moments in the twentieth century
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ISBN: 1281740942 9786611740948 0300127510 9780300127515 0300106653 9780300106657 9780300126020 0300126026 9781281740946 6611740945 Year: 2006 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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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.


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Utopie/dystopie : podoby, promeny, hranice
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ISBN: 8073085798 9788073085797 Year: 2015 Publisher: Praha : Filozofická Fakulta Univerzity Karlovy,

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Lannistumaton : Matti Kurikan haaveet ja haaksirikot kolmella mantereella
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Helsinki : Finnish Literature Society,

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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 : dreamers, believers, and madmen
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ISBN: 1498557031 0739181335 9780739181331 1299817971 9781299817975 9780739181324 9781498557030 Year: 2013 Publisher: Lanham, Md. ; Plymouth, England : Lexington Books,

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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,


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Utopia and consciousness
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ISBN: 1283123231 9786613123237 9042033061 9789042033061 9789042033054 9042033053 9781283123235 6613123234 Year: 2011 Publisher: Amsterdam : Rodopi,

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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.


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Regards sur le saint-simonisme et les saint-simoniens
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ISBN: 272970292X 2729710035 9782729702922 Year: 1986 Publisher: Lyon: Presses universitaires de Lyon,

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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 ».


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Would Trotsky wear a Bluetooth? : technological utopianism under socialism, 1917-1989
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ISBN: 0801898412 0801894107 9780801898419 9780801894107 Year: 2010 Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,

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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.


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The communal idea in the 21st century
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ISBN: 1283638142 9004236252 9789004236257 9789004207455 9004207457 Year: 2012 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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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.

The philosophy of utopia
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ISBN: 0714651532 0714681695 9781136337567 1136337563 9780714651538 9780714681696 0203045564 9780203045565 1283884992 9781283884990 9781136337635 9781136337703 1136337636 Year: 2001 Publisher: London ; Portland, Or. : Frank Cass,

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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.


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Utopia matters : theory politics, literature and the arts
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ISBN: 9728025408 9789898265074 9898265078 9789728025403 9789728025408 Year: 2005 Publisher: Porto, Portugal : Routledge,

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