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1 online resource (324 pages) : illustrations. |
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Making sense of history |
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Making sense of history.
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| Note |
The essays of this volume are based on lectures and talks given at the interdisciplinary conference "Thinking Utopia", March 1-3, 2001, held by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Essen and the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen under the direction of Jorn Rusen and Michael Fehr. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 / Jorn Rusen. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Utopias -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Rusen, Jorn, editor.
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Fehr, Michael, editor.
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Rieger, Thomas, 1964- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Thinking utopia : steps into other worlds. New York : Berghahn Books, 2005 xii, 312 pages ; 24 cm. Making sense of history (OCoLC)ocm54529192 |
| ISBN |
157181440X (alk. paper) |
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9781571814401 (alk. paper) |
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1845453042 (pbk.) |
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9781845453046 (pbk.) |
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9781782382027 (e-book) |
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