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Bridging the gap between historical theory and the study of historical memory, this series crosses the boundaries between both academic disciplines and cultural, social, political and historical contexts. In an age of rapid globalization, which tends to manifest itself on an economic and political level, locating the cultural practices involved in generating its underlying historical sense is an increasingly urgent task. After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is time to rehabilitate utopian thought. The political concept of Utopia that has given its name to these transcendental projections onto the world has been too narrow to describe and analyze the moving forces of the mind perceiving human existence beyond reality. By broadening the perspectives of utopian studies, these essays enable the reader to reconstruct scholarly paradigms and strategies of utopian, complex and holistic thinking in modern cosmology, philosophy, sociology, in literary, historical and political sciences, and to compare traditions and ways of Western utopian thought to the practice in the East.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political ideologies

• Full title: Thinking Utopia
• Author: Rusen Jorn, Michael Fehr, Thomas W. Rieger
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 328
• EAN: 9781571814401
• ISBN: 157181440X
• ID: 02660737
• Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
• Weight: 558 g
• Dimensions: 158 × 234 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. July 2005

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