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In the face of Earth's environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won't save our planet. A more radical approach is required, one that involves profound changes in individual and collective behaviour. 'Utopianism for a Dying Planet' examines the ways the expansive history of utopian thought, from its origins in ancient Sparta and ideas of the Golden Age through to today's thinkers, can offer moral and imaginative guidance in the face of catastrophe. The utopian tradition, which has been critical of conspicuous consumption and luxurious indulgence, might light a path to a society that emphasizes equality, sociability, and sustainability.

HISTORY / Modern / General. --- Environmentalism. --- Utopian socialism. --- Socialism, Utopian --- Socialism --- Environmental movement --- Social movements --- Anti-environmentalism --- Greenwashing --- Sustainable living --- Age of Enlightenment. --- All Souls' Day. --- Apollonian and Dionysian. --- Asceticism. --- Astrology. --- Atheism. --- Beyond Freedom and Dignity. --- Capitalism. --- Carbon footprint. --- Celebrity. --- Clothing. --- Commodity. --- Conspiracy theory. --- Consumerism. --- Counterculture. --- Dystopia. --- Earth Day. --- Ecocide. --- Ecofascism. --- Economic liberalism. --- Ecovillage. --- End of history. --- Environmental economics. --- Environmentalist. --- Epicureanism. --- Ethos. --- Facebook. --- Fiction. --- Fossil fuel. --- Fossil-fuel power station. --- Frank Lloyd Wright. --- Freedom From. --- Future of the Earth. --- Gas lighting. --- Gasoline. --- Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. --- Global warming. --- Gnosticism. --- Golden Age. --- Good and evil. --- Greenhouse gas. --- Heterotopia (space). --- Imaginary voyage. --- Insurance. --- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. --- James Tully (philosopher). --- Job guarantee. --- Karl Mannheim. --- Late capitalism. --- Liberal democracy. --- Libertarian Party (United States). --- Martyr. --- Marxism. --- Maxwell's demon. --- Melting. --- Methane (data page). --- New Utopia. --- Nuclear power. --- Nuclear weapon. --- Nuclear winter. --- Pensioner. --- Petrus Camper. --- Physiocracy. --- Planetes. --- Progressivism. --- Prosperity Without Growth. --- Ralph Waldo Emerson. --- Reform movement. --- Reincarnation. --- Relativism. --- Renewable energy. --- Renewable fuels. --- Restitution. --- Retirement. --- Save the Planet. --- Science fiction studies. --- Science fiction. --- Slavery. --- Southern Europe. --- Technological fix. --- The Angel of the Revolution. --- The Last Stage. --- The Most Extreme. --- The Revenge of Gaia. --- The Road to Serfdom. --- The World Without Us. --- Theodor W. Adorno. --- Theory. --- Thorstein Veblen. --- Totalitarianism. --- Urban revolution. --- Utopia. --- Utopian and dystopian fiction. --- Utopian studies. --- Veganism. --- Victory garden. --- Viewing (funeral). --- Wealth. --- World peace. --- Utopias.

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"This book is the third in a trilogy that looks at the cultural history of Prague in order to tell the larger story of competing notions of European modernity-Reformation and Counter-Reformation, empire and nation, fascism and democracy-as they all played out on a single stage. This volume begins in 1938, when Czechoslovakia was dismembered by the Munich agreement and shortly before the invasion of the Third Reich, and it runs until the present day, when liberal democracy appears to be giving way to right-wing populism (as in much of the world). Like the previous volumes in the series, it sees Prague as a palimpsest of the cultures that overtook it-cultures that aimed to impose their own visions of modernity on the city. In this book, Sayer charts three major "modernities:" the Third Reich's brutal totalitarianism, the shifting face of Soviet communism, and the supposed freedoms of Western capitalist democracy. In Sayer's reading, the Nazis, Soviets, and Western democrats each believed that Prague had reached the end of history, that it had achieved "the final form of human government" (in Fukuyama's words). All were proved spectacularly wrong. As these political movements disintegrated, they returned the city to a state of banal surreality that Czech dissidents in the 1960s dubbed Absurdistan. Putting the notion of Absurdistan at the center of his story, Sayer engages with artists, creators and the things they produced, which unsparingly revealed the absurdity of the "modern" world and its notions of progress. He explores the work of Milan Kundera, Miloš Forman, Václav Havel, and many others lesser known in the Anglophone world. He examines the tradition of vulgar absurdist comedy beginning with Kafka, and he shows how Prague's cultural products have been marked by persistent moral ambiguity, or in Kundera's words, "the intoxicating relativity of human things," since the mid-century. The overarching argument of this book is that, by looking to Prague's cultural history, we can see that modernity has never been a single or stable notion, and as different ideologies of modernity have come head-to-head, they have produced a rich culture of ambiguity and absurdity. We published the first two books in the trilogy, The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History (1998), which spanned the 18th to the turn of the 20th century, and Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century (2013), which looked at modernism and revolutionary thinking in Prague in the first half of the 20th century. Both books did well, and Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century won the prestigious George L. Mosse Prize for European cultural and intellectual history from the American Historical Association"--

Prague (Czech Republic) --- Civilization --- 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état. --- Absurdistan. --- Adolf Eichmann. --- Adolf Hitler. --- Allen Ginsberg. --- Anschluss. --- Arid. --- Bankruptcy. --- Bohumil Hrabal. --- Byzantine Empire. --- Cactus. --- Central Committee. --- Charles Darwin. --- Charter 77. --- Closely Watched Trains. --- Colonization. --- Conrad Veidt. --- Constantinople. --- Czechoslovak Hockey Riots. --- Czechoslovakia. --- Czechs. --- Diego Rivera. --- Distant Journey. --- Dora Diamant. --- Ecology. --- Economics. --- Egon Bondy. --- El Niño–Southern Oscillation. --- Endemism. --- Epiphyte. --- Essay. --- Franz Kafka. --- Franz Werfel. --- Geology. --- Germans. --- Gestapo. --- Giant tortoise. --- Gulag. --- Hadrian. --- Heinrich Himmler. --- Heinrich Mann. --- Honza. --- Hussites. --- Iconoclasm. --- Illustration. --- International Students' Day. --- Jan Masaryk. --- Jan Palach. --- Jews. --- Joseph Stalin. --- Karel Gott. --- Karel Teige. --- Karl Marx. --- Kitsch. --- Klement Gottwald. --- Le Corbusier. --- Lecture. --- Libri Carolini. --- Lidice. --- Mangrove. --- Max Brod. --- Milan Kundera. --- Milton Friedman. --- Modernity. --- Money laundering. --- Nazi Party. --- Nazism. --- Newspaper. --- Nikephoros (Caesar). --- Ocean current. --- On the Origin of Species. --- Opuntia. --- Pavel Kohout. --- Physiocracy. --- Poetry. --- Politics. --- Prague Spring. --- Presidium. --- Reinhard Heydrich. --- Samizdat. --- Scalesia. --- Slavery. --- Slovakia. --- Socialist realism. --- South America. --- Soviet Union. --- Sudeten Germans. --- Surrealism. --- Tariff. --- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. --- The Other Hand. --- The Power of the Powerless. --- The Theory of Moral Sentiments. --- The Voyage of the Beagle. --- The Wealth of Nations. --- V. --- Wealth. --- Wenceslas Square. --- World War II. --- Writing.