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Central European University Press
The 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia has directed attention toward the importance of utopianism. This book investigates the possibilities of cooperation between the humanities and the social sciences in the analysis of 20th century and contemporary utopian phenomena. The papers deal with major problems of interpreting utopias, the relationship of utopia and ideology, and the... Read more
List of Figures, Introduction - Utopianism: Literary and Political Zsolt Czigányik PART I. Utopia with a Political Focus 1. Ideology and Utopia: Karl Mannheim and Paul Ricoeur Lyman Tower Sargent 2. When Does Utopianism Produce Dystopia? Gregory Claeys 3. From the Political Utopia to the Philosophical Utopia—and Rescuing the Political Utopia, on Second Thought Fátima Vieira 4. Third Way Utopianism: Anarcho-Democratic and Liberal Socialist Ideas in Central Europe András Bozóki and Miklós Sükösd 5. George Orwell, Soviet Studies, and the Soviet Subjectivity Debate Dmitry Halavach- PART II. Utopia with a Literary Focus 6. Marxist Utopianism and Modern Irish Drama, 1884-1904: William Morris, W. B. Yeats, and G. B. Shaw Eglantina Remport 7. Civil Religion as Utopian Ideology: A Case Study of H. G. Wells Károly Pintér 8. Negative Utopia in Central Europe: Kazohinia and the Dystopian Political Climate of the 1930s Zsolt Czigányik 9. What They Were Going to Do About It: Huxley's Peace Pamphlet in Pre-War Hungary Ákos Farkas 10. The City in Ruins: Post-9/11 Representations of Cataclysmic New York on Film Vera Benczik 11. Realism and Utopianism Reconsidered: A Political Theoretical Reading of A Song of Ice and Fire Zoltán Gábor Sz?cs, Afterword Zsolt Czigányik, List of contributors, Index
Biography
Zsolt Czigányik is senior lecturer at Eötvös Loránd University, and Humanities Initiative Fellow at Central European University, Budapest.
