Michael (Hrsg.) Fehr

Thinking Utopia

Steps Into Other Worlds

Buch

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, com… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Rieger, Thomas W (Hrsg.) / Rüsen, Jörn (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-57181-440-1
EAN: 9781571814401
Produktnummer: 19827733
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 326 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.2 cm 626 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 626

Über den Autor

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.