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The Designed Myth: Investigations on the Structure and Effect Condition of Utopia

Autor Hans-Georg Soeffner
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 iul 2024
Utopian thinking and utopian designs ostensibly represent a belief in human progress. The starting point of utopias is almost always a bad present that is to be overcome. But in the 20th and 21st centuries, doubts are growing about a plannable future designed by enlightened reason, about the project of modernity. Utopias are answered by dystopias. This makes it clear: the basic motif of utopian thinking is the fear of an uncontrollable future, a fear that could perhaps be overcome by the principle of hope (Ernst Bloch), an amiable illusion.
The Content
 The "contradiction" of rationality and irrationality in utopian conceptions
 ● Fiction and reality
 ● Model and myth
● Symbol and symbolic action
 ● Enlightenment to autonomy.
The target groups
 ● Humanities scholars, political scientists and social scientists
● Philosophers
● Theologians
Theauthor Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Soeffner is Professor Emeritus of General Sociology at the University of Konstanz, Senior Fellow and Board Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI) and Permanent Visiting Fellow at the Forum internationale Wissenschaft of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783658397012
ISBN-10: 3658397012
Ilustrații: XXXI, 238 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:2024
Editura: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:Wiesbaden, Germany

Cuprins

The "contradiction" of rationality and irrationality in utopian conceptions.- Fiction and reality.- Model and myth.- Symbol and symbolic action.- Enlightenment to autonomy.


Notă biografică

 Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Soeffner is Professor Emeritus of General Sociology at the University of Konstanz, Senior Fellow and Board Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI) and Permanent Visiting Fellow at the Forum internationale Wissenschaft of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Utopian thinking and utopian designs ostensibly stand for a belief in human progress. The starting point of utopias is almost always a bad present that is to be overcome. But in the 20th and 21st centuries, doubts are growing about a plannable future designed by enlightened reason, about the project of modernity. Utopias are answered by dystopias. This makes clear: The basic motive of utopian thinking is the fear of an uncontrollable future, a fear that could perhaps be overcome by the principle of hope(Ernst Bloch), an amiable illusion.

The content
The "contradiction" of rationality and irrationality in utopian conceptions ● Fiction and reality ● Model and myth ● Symbol and symbolic action ● Enlightenment to autonomy. 

Target groups
● Humanities scholars, political scientists, and social scientists
● Philosophers
● Theologians

The author
Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Soeffner is Professor Emeritus of General Sociology at the University of Konstanz, Senior Fellow and Board Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI), and Permanent Visiting Fellow at the Forum internationale Wissenschaft of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

Caracteristici

Linking History and Diagnosis of the Times Overview of utopian and dystopian literature On rationality and irrationality in utopian conceptions