02307cam a22002414a 4500 040226s2005 nyua b 101 0 eng 157181440X 9781571814401 1845453042 9781845453046 SDU HX806 T422 2005 Thinking utopia : steps into other worlds / edited by Jörn Rüsen, Michael Fehr and Thomas W. Rieger. New York : Berghahn Books, 2005. xii, 312 p. : ill. The essays of this volume are based on lectures and talks given at the interdisciplinary conference "Thinking Utopia", March 1-3, 2001, held by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Essen and the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen under the direction of Jörn Rüsen and Michael Fehr. The necessity of utopian thinking : a cross-national perspective / Lyman Tower Sargent -- Aspects of the Western utopian tradition / Krishan Kumar -- Visions of the future / Michael Thompson -- Utopia, contractualism, human rights / Richard Saage -- On the construction of worlds : technology and economy in European utopias / Wolfgang Pircher -- Bodies in utopia and utopian bodies in imperial China / Dorothy Ko -- Science, technology, and utopia : perspective of a computer-assisted evolution of humankind / Klaus Mainzer -- "Thinking about the unthinkable" : the virtual as a place of utopia / Claus Pias -- Natural utopianism in everyday life practice : an elementary theoretical model / Ulrich Oevermann -- Haunted by things : utopias and their consequences / Donald Preziosi -- Art, museum, utopia : five themes on an epistemological construction site / Michael Fehr -- Art, science, utopia in the early modern period / Wolfgang Braungart -- Utopiary / Rachel Weiss -- The utopian, East and West / Zhang Longxi -- Trauma : a dystopia of the spirit / Michael S. Roth -- From revolutionary to catastrophic utopia / Slavoj Zizek -- The narrative staging of image and counter-image : on the poetics of literary utopias / Wilhelm Vosskamp -- Rethinking utopia : a plea for a culture of inspiration / Jörn Rüsen. Utopias Rüsen, Jörn. 199634 Fehr, Michael. 212469 Rieger, Thomas, 1964- 212470 GBE lcc 109927 109927 0 0 lcc 0 HX0806 T422 02005 0 CGB 281740 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-09-12 2 0 HX806 T422 2005 1000360221 2025-09-12 00:00:00 C.1 2025-09-12 GBE