Utopian Horizons

Ideology, Politics, Literature

Zsolt Cziganyik (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2017
Central European University Press (Verlag)
978-963-386-181-3 (ISBN)

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The 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia has directed attention toward the importance of utopianism. This book investigates the possibilities of cooperation between the humanities and the social sciences in the analysis of 20th century and contemporary utopian phenomena. The papers deal with major problems of interpreting utopias, the relationship of utopia and ideology, and the highly problematic issue as to whether utopia necessarily leads to dystopia. Besides reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary utopian investigations, the eleven essays effectively represent the constructive attitudes of utopian thought, a feature that not only defines late 20th- and 21st-century utopianism, but is one of the primary reasons behind the rising importance of the topic. The volume's originality and value lies not only in the innovative theoretical approaches proposed, but also in the practical application of the concept of utopia to a variety of phenomena which have been neglected in the utopian studies paradigm, especially to the rarely discussed Central European texts and ideologies.

Zsolt Cziganyik is Senior Lecturer at Eotvos Lorand University and Humanities Initiative Fellow at Central European University, Budapest.

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Introduction – Utopianism: Literary and Political

Zsolt Czigányik

PART I. Utopia with a Political Focus

1. Ideology and Utopia: Karl Mannheim and Paul Ricoeur

Lyman Tower Sargent

2. When Does Utopianism Produce Dystopia?

Gregory Claeys

3. From the Political Utopia to the Philosophical Utopia—and Rescuing the Political Utopia, on Second Thought

Fátima Vieira

4. Third Way Utopianism: Anarcho-Democratic and Liberal Socialist Ideas in Central Europe

András Bozóki and Miklós Sükösd

5. George Orwell, Soviet Studies, and the “Soviet Subjectivity” Debate

Dmitry Halavach

PART II. Utopia with a Literary Focus

6. Marxist Utopianism and Modern Irish Drama, 1884–1904: William Morris, W. B. Yeats, and G. B. Shaw

Eglantina Remport

7. Civil Religion as Utopian Ideology: A Case Study of H. G. Wells

Károly Pintér

8. Negative Utopia in Central Europe: Kazohinia and the Dystopian Political Climate of the 1930s

Zsolt Czigányik

9. What They Were Going to Do About It: Huxley’s Peace Pamphlet in Pre-War Hungary

Ákos Farkas

10. The City in Ruins: Post-9/11 Representations of Cataclysmic New York on Film

Vera Benczik

11. Realism and Utopianism Reconsidered: A Political Theoretical Reading of A Song of Ice and Fire

Zoltán Gábor Szűcs

Afterword

Zsolt Czigányik

List of contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.06.2017
Verlagsort	Budapest
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 234 mm
Gewicht	495 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	963-386-181-0 / 9633861810
ISBN-13	978-963-386-181-3 / 9789633861813
Zustand	Neuware