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Exploring the 'Nahda', a cultural renaissance in the Arab world responding to massive social change, this study presents a crucial and often overlooked part of the Arab world's encounter with global capitalist modernity, an interaction which reshaped the Middle East over the course of the long nineteenth century. Seeing themselves as part of an expanding capitalist civilization, Arab intellectuals approached the changing world of the mid-nineteenth century with confidence and optimism, imagining utopian futures for their own civilizing projects. By analyzing the works of crucial writers of the period, including Butrus al-Bustani and Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, alongside lesser-known figures such as the prolific journalist Khalil al-Khuri and the utopian visionary Fransis Marrash of Aleppo, Peter Hill places these visions within the context of their local class- and state-building projects in Ottoman Syria and Egypt, which themselves formed part of a global age of capital. By illuminating this little-studied early period of the Arab Nahda movement, Hill places the transformation of the Arab region within the context of world history, inviting us to look beyond the well-worn categories of 'tr

Civilization, Arab --- Arabic literature --- Utopias in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Arab countries --- Intellectual life --- Utopian literature --- Arab world --- Arabic countries --- Arabic-speaking states --- Islamic countries --- Middle East

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"In Confucian Concord, Federico Brusadelli offers an intellectual analysis of the Datong Shu. Written by Kang Youwei (1858-1927) and conceived as his most esoteric and comprehensive legacy to posterity, the book was eventually published only posthumously, in 1935, being "too advanced for the times" in the author's own opinion. Connecting the book to the author's intellectual biography and framing it within the intellectual and political debate of the time, Brusadelli investigates the conceptual and philosophical implications of Kang's 'global prophecy', showing how an apparently 'utopian' and 'escapist' piece of literature was actually an attempt to save (at least ideally) the imperial political order, updating the traditional Confucian universalism to a new, 'modern' world"--

Utopias --- Universalism --- Confucianism --- Kang, Youwei, --- 康有为, --- Kʻang, Yu-wei, --- Religions --- Salus extra ecclesiam --- Universal salvation --- Salvation --- Salvation after death --- Ideal states --- States, Ideal --- Utopian literature --- Political science --- Socialism --- Voyages, Imaginary --- Dystopias --- Christianity --- S06/0255 --- S12/0240 --- China: Politics and government--Political theory: modern (and/or under Western influence) --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Chinese philosophy: Qing --- Confucianism. --- Universalism. --- Utopias. --- Da tong shu (Kang, Youwei).

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This book offers an insightful history of dystopian literature, integrating it within the conceptual schemas of Deleuze and Guattari. Unlike earlier examples of dystopia which depict representations of a possible future that is remarkably worse than present society, contemporary dystopia often tends to portray an almost allegorical re-presentation of present society. Tracing dystopia’s shift from transcendence towards immanence with the rise of late neoliberal capitalism and control-societies, Çokay Nebioğlu skilfully constructs a new taxonomy of dystopian fiction to address this changing dynamic. Accompanied by a subtle exploration of earlier and later examples of the genre by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Suzanne Collins, Veronica Roth, William Gibson, Max Barry, Dave Eggers, Cindy Pon, and Tahsin Yücel along with rich and nuanced analysis of China Mieville’s Perdido Street Station and Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, the book seeks not only to track the transformation of dystopia in light of worldwide cultural, political and economic transformation, but also to conduct a schizoanalytic reading of dystopia, thus opening up an exciting field of enquiry for Deleuzian scholars. .

Dystopias in literature. --- Utopias in literature. --- Schizophrenia --- Capitalism --- Social aspects. --- Deleuze, Gilles, --- Guattari, Félix, --- Utopian literature --- Guattari, F. --- Guattari, Pierre-Félix, --- Gvattari, Feliks, --- Deleuze, G. --- Delëz, Zhilʹ, --- Dūlūz, Jīl, --- دولوز، جيل --- Delezi, Jier, --- Aesthetics. --- Continental Philosophy. --- Poststructuralism. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Post-structuralism --- Philosophy, Modern --- Structuralism --- Philosophy, Continental --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy --- Art --- Criticism --- Literature --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Psychology --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics --- Aesthetics

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"These essays examine how various communities remembered and commemorated their shared past through the lens of utopia and its corollary, dystopia, providing a framework for the reinterpretation of rapidly changing religious, cultural and political realities of the turbulent period from 300 to 750 CE. The common theme of the chapters is the utopian ideals of religious groups, whether these are inscribed on the body, on the landscape, in texts or other cultural objects. The volume is the first to apply this conceptual framework to Late Antiquity, when historically significant conflicts arose between the adherents of four major religious identities: Greco-Roman "pagans", newly dominant Christians, diaspora Jews who were more or less persecuted, depending on the current regime, and the emerging religion and power of Islam. Late Antiquity was thus a period when dystopian realities competed with memories of a mythical Golden Age, variously conceived according to the religious identity of the group. The contributors come from a range of disciplines, including cultural studies, religious studies, ancient history and art history, and employ both theoretical and empirical approaches. This volume is unique in the range of evidence it draws upon, both visual and textual, to support the basic argument, that utopia in Late Antiquity, whether conceived spiritually, artistically or politically, was a place of the past but also of the future, even of the Afterlife. Memories of Utopia will be of interest to historians, archaeologists, and art historians of the later Roman empire, and those working on religion in Late Antiquity and Byzantium"--

Utopias --- Religious aspects. --- History --- Byzantine Empire --- Civilization. --- Ideal states --- States, Ideal --- Utopian literature --- Political science --- Socialism --- Voyages, Imaginary --- Dystopias --- Religious aspects --- 27 <08> --- 27 "03/07" --- 27 <08> Histoire de l'Eglise--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- 27 <08> Kerkgeschiedenis--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- 27 "03/07" Histoire de l'Eglise--?"03/07" --- 27 "03/07" Kerkgeschiedenis--?"03/07" --- Histoire de l'Eglise--?"03/07" --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"03/07" --- Religiones --- Cristianismo --- Judaismo --- Islam --- Aspectos religiosos --- Historia --- Conference of Carthage --- christianity and paganism in late antiquity --- christianity and polytheism in late antiquity --- christians and pagans in late antiquity --- christians and polytheists in late antiquity --- christian identity and sacred sites --- christian tombs under julian --- creation of christian identity --- early christianity middle east --- early christianity north africa --- early christians and diaspora jews --- early christians and greco roman art --- early christians and pagan art --- early christian environment --- early christian landscapes --- early christian middle east --- early christian north africa --- Formation of Early Christian Identity --- Gregory of Tours’ Lives of the Saints --- greco-roman religion and christianity --- idols and early christianity --- jerome and christian identity --- julian and cynicism --- julian and the cynics --- julian the apostate --- late antique eusebia --- late antique ritual space --- Manipulation of Memory under Julian --- mediterranean ritual space --- memories of utopia