Thinking Utopia: Steps into Other Worlds: 4 (Making Sense of History, 4) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1845453042 ISBN 13: 9781845453046

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

". . . a highly readable and structured discussion about utopian thinking at the beginning ofthe 21st century . . . It is indeed fortunate that political scientists, historians, philosophers,art critics, and literary theorists have come together to share their thinking on utopia andutopian thought at this disastrous moment of human history, when many are asking if thereis a future to which to look forward." - European LegacyAfter the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it became fashionable todeclare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors ofthis 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 projectionsonto the world has been too narrow to describe and analyze the moving forces of the mindperceiving human existence beyond reality. By broadening the perspectives of utopianstudies, these essays enable the reader to reconstruct scholarly paradigms and strategies ofutopian, complex and holistic thinking in modern cosmology, philosophy, sociology, in literary,historical and political sciences, and to compare traditions and ways of Western utopianthought to the practice in the East.Jörn Rüsen was Professor of Modern History at Universities Bochum and Bielefeld for manyyears. From 1994 to 1997 he was Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) atBielefeld. Since 1997 he has been President of the Institute for Advanced Study in theHumanities Essen (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut).Michael Fehr has been Director of the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum of the City of Hagen,Germany, since 1987. Prior to that he was Assistant Professor at the Bergische UniversitätWuppertal, and Deputy Director at the Art Museum of the City of Bochum. He has publishedextensively on contemporary art as well as on theory of museums, and teaches museology atUniversity of Bonn.Thomas W. Rieger worked at the Museum of Contemporary History Bonn (Stiftung Haus derGeschichte) from 1993 to 1998, and since 1999 at Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen. He hasbeen teaching Theory of Architecture at RWTH Aachen and has been Curator at KunsthalleDüsseldorf since 2004.

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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.

Michael Fehr has been Director of the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum of the City of Hagen, Germany, since 1987. Prior to that he was Assistant Professor at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, and Deputy Director at the Art Museum of the City of Bochum. He has curated numerous exhibitions on contemporary art, cultural history and city planning, and, in the 1970s, created and organized for almost one decade the Kemnade International, a cultural festival for immigrant workers and their families in Germany. He has published extensively on contemporary art as well as on theory of museums. He teaches museology at University of Bonn.

Thomas W. Rieger studied Art History, Archeology, City Planning and History at Universities Bonn, Zürich, Berlin and Columbia University, New York. He has been working at Museum of Contemporary History Bonn (Stiftung Haus der Geschichte) from 1993 to 1998, and since 1999 at Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen as co-curator of the exhibition project Museutopia - Steps Into Other Worlds (2002). He teaches Theory of Architecture at RWTH Aachen.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1845453042
• ISBN 13: 9781845453046
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328
• Herausgeber: Rüsen J, Fehr M, Rieger T W
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