Thinking Utopia: Steps into Other Worlds (Making Sense of History) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845453042 ISBN 13: 9781845453046

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

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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Jörn Rüsen was Professor of Modern History at Universities Bochum and Bielefeld for many years. From 1994 to 1997 he was Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld. Since 1997 he has been President of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut). He specialises in theory and methodology of historical sciences, the history of historiography, intercultural aspects of historical thinking, theory of historical learning, and the history of human rights.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1845453042
• ISBN 13: 9781845453046
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328
• Herausgeber: Rüsen Jörn, Fehr Michael, Rieger Thomas W.
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• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar