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
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- Kapitel Ausklappen | EinklappenSeiten
- 9–12 Preface 9–12
- 31–48 On Kant’s “as if ” 31–48
- 125–138 Academia as Heterotopia 125–138
- 165–166 List of Contributors 165–166
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- „... Klaus L. Berghahn“Concrete Utopia” and “Exact Fantasy”Utopian Thinking and Imagination in Ernst ...” „... dif-ferentiates between the abstract utopias of idealistic reformers and the “con-crete utopia” of Marxism. What ...” „... utopias. There-fore Bloch called socialism the “practice of a concrete utopia” (PH, 18). However, how can ...”
- „... utopian fantasy: the first step toward securing Utopia from outside intrusion (which is assumed to be ...” „... – between the needs of a utopia and the needs of the utopian imagination – is at the heart of Christa Wolf ...” „... Angelika BammerFeminism, the Dream of Utopia, and the Rage of Lisbeth SalanderThis essay is an ...”
- „... than the few utopian novels. It is hardly fortuitous that the 16th century gave us the term utopia and ...” „... that the age of utopias and ideologies was over. The two words – utopia and ideology – were gener-ally ...” „... the authors’ lives bestowed upon anti-utopianism an indisputable gravitas. The criticism of utopia ...”
- „... Utopian nature. The descriptive second part of Utopia could be received as draft constitution in the ...” „... fragmentation cor-responded to uncertain legal relationships.8 Thomas More’s utopia-model responds to this ...” „... nature of the Utopia-republic’s overall conception is made obvious in those passages delineating an ...”
- „... countries of the world who are totally opposed to any kind of utopian thinking. Why do we still need utopias ...” „... . Therefore, most dictionaries in these countries define the term “utopia” as a totalitarian concept, a ...” „... utopias or even utopian intentions?Yet in spite of all these complacent proclamations, one political ...”
- „... at all, has shattered any dreams of century-old social utopias. Utopia is draped in a mourning veil ...” „... up to our contem-porary culture. Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) is not only the prototype of the utopian ...” „... appears bleak. Especially the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, if that was supposed to be a utopia ...”
- „... do well without ‘green’ utopias.Luckily, not everyone has conformed to the tendency of ...” „... (1761), for exam-ple, he devised a ‘green’ utopia, the idyllic landscape garden and orchard at Clarens ...” „... from nature. In this rural utopia, set in the 21st century, 11 Karl Marx. Das Kapital. MEW Vol. 23 ...”
- „... . Berghahn“Concrete Utopia” and “Exact Fantasy”.Utopian Thinking and Imagination in Ernst Bloch’s Principle of Hope ...” „... Thomas More ...Jürgen Fohrmann On Kant’s “as if ”.Utopia and How to Tell a (Hi)story to Its End ...” „... ............................................................Angelika BammerFeminism, the Dream of Utopia, and the Rage of Lisbeth SalanderPeter Morris-KeitelImagining ...”
- „... empiri-cists, realists, or even materialists. Utopian-based intellectuals are frequently described as idealists ...” „... course, a typical utopia: in the first place it is not a “no place,” since Haber-mas ascribes to it a ...” „... simple (homme), and therefore is discredited as a fully realized discursive utopia, it is nonetheless ...”
- „... Jürgen Fohrmann On Kant’s “as if ”Utopia and How to Tell a (Hi)story to Its EndUtopian literature ...” „... (utopia) totally full and at the same time empty.6Following this insight it is of some concern that this ...” „... See Jürgen Fohrmann. “From Literary Utopia to the Utopia of Subjectivity.” In: Monatshefte 88.3 (1996 ...”
- „... University), former student of Jost Hermand (Ph.D. 1991), expert on green utopias.Professor Wilhelm Voßkamp ...” „... (Ph.D. 1982), expert on feminism and utopian thinking.Professor Klaus L. Berghahn (UW–Madison ...” „... for Humanities at UW–Madison (1991) and author of numerous publications on utopian thinking.Professor ...”
- „... Nazi utopias, a fellow German professor stood up and sarcastically thanked him for “read-ing all of ...” „... pessimism of the intellect in Jost’s teachings. Indeed, his key interest in utopian thought throughout his ...” „... : utopian thinking is a necessity.Finally, I want to make reference to a quality that may not readily come ...”