Wind and Whirlwind: Utopian and Dystopian Themes in Literature and Philosophy

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-37532-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 339, 118 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Philosophy, Literature, and Politics

In Wind and Whirlwind the great philosopher Ágnes Heller and social scientist Riccardo Mazzeo explain the pros and cons of utopias and dystopias as they are described in literary works and their relevance to understand the world we live in and the hidden consequences of apparently appealing life trajectories.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heller, Ágnes

Mazzeo, Riccardo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Part 1: From Utopia to Dystopia: Dreams and Projects of Historical Imagination

1 On the Historicity of Imagination

2 The Golden Age, the Philosophical Constructions of “the Just State”

3 Reflections on the Utopian Moment and the New Republicanism: Are All Revolutions Betrayed? On “Socialist” Utopias. The Dream of the “Anthropological Turn”

4 The Dystopian Moment and the Last Utopias

Part 2: Dystopias of the Twenty-First Century: the Bank of Critical Thinking

5 The Circle

6 The Possibility of an Island

7 2084: the End of the World

8 The Beacon of Psychoanalysis on the Billowing Ocean of Utopia

9 Some Reservations on Utopia

Über Autor(innen)

One of the most renowned living philosophers, Ágnes Heller was born in Budapest in 1929. She has published widely on social and political philosophy and is now Professor Emeritus at the New School of Social Research in New York.

Riccardo Mazzeo (1955), writer, editor, and social scientist, has written books with Zygmunt Bauman, Edgar Morin, Tariq Ramadan, and Miguel Benasayag and translated over 100 books into Italian. He has been editor-in-chief of 11 scientific journals.