The Temptation of Hope

doi:10.5771/9783849814557

The Temptation of Hope

Utopian Thinking and Imagination from Thomas More to Ernst Bloch - an Beyond. 43rd Wisconsin Workshop in Honor of Jost Hermand's Eightieth Birthday

Erschienen 2019

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doi.org/10.5771/9783849814557
ISBN print: 978-3-89528-804-3
ISBN online: 978-3-8498-1455-7
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Zusammenfassung

Utopian thinking and imagination have fallen on hard times. It has almost become a common place that utopian visions are obsolete. The present state of world affairs seems to paralyze utopian thinking. In an age of worldwide exploitation and destruction of nature, of triumphant global capitalism, and of senseless terrorism the future of mankind seems bleak. Especially the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, if that was suppose to be a utopia at all, has shattered all dreams of century-old social utopias. Utopia is draped in a mourning veil, and Postmodernism, we are told is ringing in the end of Utopia. Would it not be wiser, under these anti-utopian circumstances, to say farewell to utopian thinking?

It is against this backdrop of recent cultural pessimism that this volume on The Temptation of Hope tries to rescue the power of utopian thinking and imagination.

Schlagworte

Anti-Utopia Bloch, Ernst Heterotopia Kant, Immanuel More, Thomas Popper, Karl Utopia Utopian Thinking

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2–8 Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis 2–8
9–12 Preface Klaus L. Berghahn Klaus L. Berghahn 9–12
13–30 Rational Ordering and Human Existence Wilhelm Voßkamp Wilhelm Voßkamp 13–30
31–48 On Kant’s “as if ” Jürgen Fohrmann Jürgen Fohrmann 31–48
49–64 Karl Popper, Isaiah Berlin, and the Anti-Utopian Refugees Russell Jacoby Russell Jacoby 49–64
65–78 “Concrete Utopia” and “Exact Fantasy” Klaus L. Berghahn Klaus L. Berghahn 65–78
79–102 Feminism, the Dream of Utopia, and the Rage of Lisbeth Salander Angelika Bammer Angelika Bammer 79–102
103–124 Imagining a ‘Green’ Future Peter Morris-Keitel Peter Morris-Keitel 103–124
125–138 Academia as Heterotopia Robert C. Holub Robert C. Holub 125–138
139–154 The Necessity of Utopian Thinking Jost Hermand Jost Hermand 139–154
155–164 »Laudatio« for Jost Hermand Robert C. Holub Robert C. Holub 155–164
165–166 List of Contributors 165–166

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