Thinking utopia : steps into other worlds /: steps into other worlds. (2005)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jörn Rüsen, Michael Fehr and Thomas W. Rieger.
• Other Names: Rüsen, Jörn; Fehr, Michael; Rieger, Thomas, 1964-
• Contents: The necessity of utopian thinking : a cross-national perspective / Lyman Tower Sargent -- Aspects of the Western utopian tradition / Krishan Kumar -- Visions of the future / Michael Thompson -- Utopia, contractualism, human rights / Richard Saage -- On the construction of worlds : technology and economy in European utopias / Wolfgang Pircher -- Bodies in utopia and utopian bodies in imperial China / Dorothy Ko -- Science, technology, and utopia : perspective of a computer-assisted evolution of humankind / Klaus Mainzer -- "Thinking about the unthinkable" : the virtual as a place of utopia / Claus Pias -- Natural utopianism in everyday life practice : an elementary theoretical model / Ulrich Oevermann -- Haunted by things : utopias and their consequences / Donald Preziosi -- Art, museum, utopia : five themes on an epistemological construction site / Michael Fehr -- Art, science, utopia in the early modern period / Wolfgang Braungart -- Utopiary / Rachel Weiss -- The utopian, East and West / Zhang Longxi -- Trauma : a dystopia of the spirit / Michael S. Roth -- From revolutionary to catastrophic utopia / Slavoj Zizek -- The narrative staging of image and counter-image : on the poetics of literary utopias / Wilhelm Vosskamp -- Rethinking utopia : a plea for a culture of inspiration / Jörn Rüsen.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource (328 pages)
• Subjects: 335/.02; Utopias -- Congresses; Utopies -- Congrès; Utopias; Utopie; Utopías -- Congresos, conferencias, etc; Pensamiento -- Filosofía -- Congresos, conferencias, etc; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782382027
• Related ISBNs: 178238202X
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