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Author : Mulford Q. Sibley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Technology and Utopian Thought written by Mulford Q. Sibley and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mulford Quickert Sibley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780808719762
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Technology and Utopian Thought written by Mulford Quickert Sibley and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Howard P. Segal
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815630616
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Technological Utopianism in American Culture written by Howard P. Segal and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring twenty-five writers in all, this book includes Howard P. Segal's acclaimed work on utopian visionaries.
Author : van Klink, Bart
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803921404
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Utopian Thinking in Law, Politics, Architecture and Technology written by van Klink, Bart and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This innovative book explores the role of utopian thinking in law and politics, including alternative forms of social engineering, such as technology and architecture. Building on Levitas’ Utopia as Method, the topic of utopia is addressed within the book from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Author : E. Mendelsohn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400963408
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Nineteen Eighty-Four: Science Between Utopia and Dystopia written by E. Mendelsohn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just fifty years ago Julian Huxley, the biologist grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, published a book which easily could be seen to represent the prevail ing outlook among young scientists of the day: If I were a Dictator (1934). The outlook is optimistic, the tone playfully rational, the intent clear - allow science a free hand and through rational planning it could bring order out of the surrounding social chaos. He complained, however: At the moment, science is for most part either an intellectual luxury or the paid servant of capitalist industry or the nationalist state. When it and its results cannot be fitted into the existing framework, it and they are ignored; and furthermore the structure of scientific research is grossly lopsided, with over-emphasis on some kinds of science and partial or entire neglect of others. (pp. 83-84) All this the scientist dictator would set right. A new era of scientific human ism would provide alternative visions to the traditional religions with their Gods and the civic religions such as Nazism and fascism. Science in Huxley's version carries in it the twin impulses of the utopian imagination - Power and Order. Of course, it was exactly this vision of science which led that other grand son of Thomas Henry Huxley, the writer Aldous Huxley, to portray scientific discovery as potentially subversive and scientific practice as ultimately en slaving.
Author : Howard P. Segal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118234316
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)
Download or read book Utopias written by Howard P. Segal and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief history connects the past and present of utopianthought, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, right up topresent day visions of cyberspace communities and paradise. Explores the purpose of utopias, what they reveal about thesocieties who conceive them, and how utopias have changed over thecenturies Unique in including both non-Western and Western visions ofutopia Explores the many forms utopias have taken – propheciesand oratory, writings, political movements, world's fairs, physicalcommunities – and also discusses high-tech and cyberspacevisions for the first time The first book to analyze the implicitly utopian dimensions ofreform crusades like Technocracy of the 1930s and ModernizationTheory of the 1950s, and the laptop classroom initiatives of recentyears
Author : Klaus L. Berghahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Utopian Vision, Technological Innovation, and Poetic Imagination written by Klaus L. Berghahn and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joyce Oramel Hertzler
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528062800
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)
Download or read book The History of Utopian Thought (Classic Reprint) written by Joyce Oramel Hertzler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Utopian Thought In the second part Of this work we will appraise and analyze the Utopias, their writers, and their utopianism and the role of ideas and ideals contained therein. This program also de mands an investigation as to any contributions they have made in human advance, and any visible influence Of their potency. Of course, it also necessitates an analysis Of their shortcomings. Finally, it involves a treatment Of the effect Of the evolutionary conception and the theory Of history which came with it, on the utopian idea and the consequent changes in the type Of Utopias. Throughout it is essentially a study Of social ideas and ideals, - the influence Of environment and events in producing them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Frank Edward MANUEL
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674040562
Total Pages : 907 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Utopian Thought in the Western World written by Frank Edward MANUEL and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 907 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors have structured five centuries of utopian invention by identifying successive constellations, groups of thinkers joined by common social and moral concerns. Within this framework they analyze individual writings, in the context of the author's life and of the socio-economic, religious, and political exigencies of his time.
Author : Joyce Oramel Hertzler
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781440062193
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)
Download or read book The History of Utopian Thought written by Joyce Oramel Hertzler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Utopian Thought This book embodies two related and yet distinct types of sociological endeavor. It is a study in the history of social thought, a field which has only been receiving serious and widespread attention in recent years, and attempts to give an historical cross-section of representative Utopian thought. But it is also a study in social idealism, a study in the origin, selection and potency of those social ideas and ideals that occasional and usually exceptional men conceive, with particular emphasis upon their relation to social progress. The merit that I can hope for this book lies in the fact that, to my knowledge, it is the first book that attempts to give an unprejudiced, systematic treatment of the social Utopias as a whole. Its errors and weaknesses are those which all trail blazers have; for that reason suggestion and criticism are invited. I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to friends and colleagues for assistance of various kinds, to my wife for her painstaking aid in the verification of footnotes and the preparation of the manuscript, but above all to my teacher and colleague. Prof. E. A. Ross, for his constant encouragement, suggestion, and kindly criticism through the years this book has been in preparation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Ingo Cornils
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1640140352
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Beyond Tomorrow written by Ingo Cornils and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows German Science Fiction's connections with utopian thought, and how it attempts Zukunftsbewältigung: coping with an uncertain but also unwritten future.
Author : Clint Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317027574
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Individual and Utopia written by Clint Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to the idea of a perfect society is the idea that communities must be strong and bound together with shared ideologies. However, while this may be true, rarely are the individuals that comprise a community given primacy of place as central to a strong communal theory. This volume moves away from the dominant, current macro-level theorising on the subject of identity and its relationship to and with globalising trends, focusing instead on the individual’s relationship with utopia so as to offer new interpretive approaches for engaging with and examining utopian individuality. Interdisciplinary in scope and bringing together work from around the world, The Individual and Utopia enquires after the nature of the utopian as citizen, demonstrating the inherent value of making the individual central to utopian theorizing and highlighting the methodologies necessary for examining the utopian individual. The various approaches employed reveal what it is to be an individual yoked by the idea of citizenship and challenge the ways that we have traditionally been taught to think of the individual as citizen. As such, it will appeal to scholars with interests in social theory, philosophy, literature, cultural studies, architecture, and feminist thought, whose work intersects with political thought, utopian theorizing, or the study of humanity or human nature.
Author : John Danaher
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674984242
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Automation and Utopia written by John Danaher and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Automating technologies threaten to usher in a workless future, but John Danaher argues that this can be a good thing. A world without work may be a kind of utopia, free of the misery of the job and full of opportunities for creativity and exploration. If we play our cards right, automation could be the path to idealized forms of human flourishing.
Author : John Tresch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226812200
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book The Romantic Machine written by John Tresch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Mechanical Romanticism -- DEVICES OF COSMIC UNITY -- Ampère's Experiments: Contours of a Cosmic Cubstance -- Humboldt's Instruments: Even the Tools Will Be Free -- Arago's Daguerreotype: The Labor Theory of Knowledge -- SPECTACLES OF CREATION AND METAMORPHOSIS -- The Devil's Opera: Fantastic Physiospiritualism -- Monsters, Machine-Men, Magicians: The Automaton in the Garden -- ENGINEERS OF ARTIFICIAL PARADISES -- Saint-Simonian Engines: Love and Conversions -- Leroux's Pianotype: The Organogenesis of Humanity -- Comte's Calendar: From Infinite Universe to Closed World -- Conclusion: Afterlives of the Romantic Machine.
Author : Charles M. Johnston MD
Publisher : ICD Press
ISBN 13 : 9780974715445
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Cultural Maturity: A Guidebook for the Future (with an Introduction to the Ideas of Creative Systems Theory) written by Charles M. Johnston MD and published by ICD Press. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Maturity: A Guidebook for the Futureis the most detailed of three new future-related works by the author. It looks deeply at how the most important challenges ahead for the species will require not just better ideas, but new human capacities; in the end, an essential "growing up" as a species-a new Cultural Maturity. It is written for those inter- ested in acquiring the newly sophisticated leadership abilities that we will more and more need in all parts of our lives in times ahead. The concept of Cultural Maturity makes understandable how institutional structures and beliefs that in modern times have served us well can't be the ideals and end points that we have assumed them to be. It goes on to articulate a new guiding story for our time, one able to take us equally beyond denial, cynicism, and naïve wishful thinking. This book looks deeply at the changes the concept of Cultural Maturity describes-both how they make needed new capacities possible, and how we see their beginnings in many parts of our personal and collective lives. The concept of Cultural Maturity is based on the ideas of Creative Systems Theory, a comprehensive framework for understanding change, purpose, and interrelationship in human systems. Creative Systems Theory describes how Cultural Maturity's changes are as, or more, significant than those that brought us modern democratic governance 250 years ago. It also argues that if the concept of Cultural Maturity is not basically correct, it is hard to imagine a healthy and vital human future. In addition to introducing the concept of Cultural Maturity, Cultural Maturity: A Guidebook for the Future presents important related ideas from Creative Systems Theory. Creative Systems Theory represents an example of culturally mature conception and offers a rich array of conceptual tools able to guide us in making the future's increasingly complex choices.
Author : Andrew Pilsch
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452954887
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Transhumanism written by Andrew Pilsch and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transhumanism posits that humanity is on the verge of rapid evolutionary change as a result of emerging technologies and increased global consciousness. However, this insight is dismissed as a naive and controversial reframing of posthumanist thought, having also been vilified as “the most dangerous idea in the world” by Francis Fukuyama. In this book, Andrew Pilsch counters these critiques, arguing instead that transhumanism’s utopian rhetoric actively imagines radical new futures for the species and its habitat. Pilsch situates contemporary transhumanism within the longer history of a rhetorical mode he calls “evolutionary futurism” that unifies diverse texts, philosophies, and theories of science and technology that anticipate a radical explosion in humanity’s cognitive, physical, and cultural potentialities. By conceptualizing transhumanism as a rhetoric, as opposed to an obscure group of fringe figures, he explores the intersection of three major paradigms shaping contemporary Western intellectual life: cybernetics, evolutionary biology, and spiritualism. In analyzing this collision, his work traces the belief in a digital, evolutionary, and collective future through a broad range of texts written by theologians and mystics, biologists and computer scientists, political philosophers and economic thinkers, conceptual artists and Golden Age science fiction writers. Unearthing the long history of evolutionary futurism, Pilsch concludes, allows us to more clearly see the novel contributions that transhumanism offers for escaping our current geopolitical bind by inspiring radical utopian thought.
Author : Hoda M. Zaki
Publisher : Millefleurs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Phoenix Renewed written by Hoda M. Zaki and published by Millefleurs. This book was released on 1988 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
