Utopian Ruins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Utopian Ruins write by Jie Li. This book was released on 2020-10-26. Utopian Ruins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Utopian Ruins Jie Li traces the creation, preservation, and elision of memories about China's Mao era by envisioning a virtual museum that reckons with both its utopian yearnings and its cataclysmic reverberations. Li proposes a critical framework for understanding the documentation and transmission of the socialist past that mediates between nostalgia and trauma, anticipation and retrospection, propaganda and testimony. Assembling each chapter like a memorial exhibit, Li explores how corporeal traces, archival documents, camera images, and material relics serve as commemorative media. Prison writings and police files reveal the infrastructure of state surveillance and testify to revolutionary ideals and violence, victimhood and complicity. Photojournalism from the Great Leap Forward and documentaries from the Cultural Revolution promoted faith in communist miracles while excluding darker realities, whereas Mao memorabilia collections, factory ruins, and memorials at trauma sites remind audiences of the Chinese Revolution's unrealized dreams and staggering losses.
Utopian Ruins
Utopian Ruins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Utopian Ruins write by Jie Li. This book was released on 2020-12-04. Utopian Ruins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jie Li traces the creation, preservation, and elision of memories about China's Mao era by envisioning a virtual museum that reckons with both its utopian yearnings and cataclysmic reverberations.
After Utopia
After Utopia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After Utopia write by Judith N. Shklar. This book was released on 2020-04-07. After Utopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A political philosophy classic from one of the foremost political thinkers of the twentieth century After Utopia was Judith Shklar’s first book, a harbinger of her renowned career in political philosophy. Throughout the many changes in political thought during the last half century, this important work has withstood the test of time. In After Utopia, Shklar explores the decline of political philosophy, from Enlightenment optimism to modern cultural despair, and she offers a critical, creative analysis of this downward trend. She looks at Romantic and Christian social thought, and she shows that while the present political fatalism may be unavoidable, the prophets of despair have failed to explain the world they so dislike, leaving the possibility of a new and vigorous political philosophy. With a foreword by Samuel Moyn, examining After Utopia’s continued relevance, this current edition introduces a remarkable synthesis of ideas to a new generation of readers.
Utopian Horizons
Utopian Horizons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Utopian Horizons write by Zsolt Cziganyik. This book was released on 2017-03-30. Utopian Horizons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 highly problematic issue as to whether utopia necessarily leads to dystopia. Besides reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary utopian investigations, the eleven essays effectively represent the constructive attitudes of utopian thought, a feature that not only defines late 20th- and 21st-century utopianism, but is one of the primary reasons behind the rising importance of the topic. The volume’s originality and value lies not only in the innovative theoretical approaches proposed, but also in the practical application of the concept of utopia to a variety of phenomena which have been neglected in the utopian studies paradigm, especially to the rarely discussed Central European texts and ideologies.
Utopia
Utopia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Utopia write by Thomas More. This book was released on 2019-04-08. Utopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.
