Historia de las utopías
Historia de las utopías

Author: Lewis Mumford

Publisher: Pepitas ed.

Published: 2024-04-09

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 8418998563

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En este hermoso y valioso volumen, Lewis Mumford hace balance crítico del pensamiento utópico: su historia, sus fundamentos básicos, sus aportaciones positivas, sus cargas negativas y sus debilidades. Releyendo las utopías más conocidas e influyentes y los mitos sociales que han desempeñado un papel de primer orden en Occidente, y contrastándolos con las utopías sociales parciales todavía recientes, Mumford valora el impacto que todas estas ideas podrían tener en cualquier nuevo camino hacia Utopía que estemos dispuestos a emprender. Presentamos por primera vez en castellano el primer libro que publicó Lewis Mumford, escrito con apenas veintisiete años, y que no dejó de reeditar a lo largo de toda su prolífica vida. La edición que presentamos cuenta además con un prólogo que el propio Mumford redactó casi cincuenta años después de su edición original. En un momento en el que cada vez se escuchan más voces que hablan de la necesidad de que la sociedad cambie de rumbo, y en un tiempo en el que todas las brújulas parecen irremediablemente rotas, este libro se antoja una lectura básica por su fino análisis, por su anticipación y por la lucidez propia del pensamiento de Mumford.

The Story of Utopias
The Story of Utopias

Author: Lewis Mumford

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2011-06-14

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1446549453

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This early work is the first book written by the American historian, philosopher, literary critic and humanist, Lewis Mumford. In The Story of Utopias, Mumford deals with The New Age, socialism, social sciences, mysticism and utopia. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Story of Utopias
The Story of Utopias

Author: Lewis Mumford

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-06-12

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781514330906

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The Story of Utopias, written and edited in 1922, is a unique work, in which Lewis Mumford makes the analysis of historical utopias, based on the distinction between utopias of escape and utopias of reconstruction, including these most classic literary utopias, Plato Edward Bellamy, through Thomas More, Bacon, Campanella and others. Utopian way of life, every man enjoys the opportunity to be a man because no one has the possibility to be a monster. The main purpose of man is to grow up to the limit of the stature of its kind. Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad career as a writer.

Utopias
Utopias

Author: Howard P. Segal

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-03-02

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1118234316

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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

Chicanx Utopias
Chicanx Utopias

Author: Luis Alvarez

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2022-02-22

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1477324488

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Amid the rise of neoliberalism, globalization, and movements for civil rights and global justice in the post–World War II era, Chicanxs in film, music, television, and art weaponized culture to combat often oppressive economic and political conditions. They envisioned utopias that, even if never fully realized, reimagined the world and linked seemingly disparate people and places. In the latter half of the twentieth century, Chicanx popular culture forged a politics of the possible and gave rise to utopian dreams that sprang from everyday experiences. In Chicanx Utopias, Luis Alvarez offers a broad study of these utopian visions from the 1950s to the 2000s. Probing the film Salt of the Earth, brown-eyed soul music, sitcoms, poster art, and borderlands reggae music, he examines how Chicanx pop culture, capable of both liberation and exploitation, fostered interracial and transnational identities, engaged social movements, and produced varied utopian visions with divergent possibilities and limits. Grounded in the theoretical frameworks of Walter Benjamin, Stuart Hall, and the Zapatista movement, this book reveals how Chicanxs articulated pop cultural utopias to make sense of, challenge, and improve the worlds they inhabited.

The History of Utopian Thought
The History of Utopian Thought

Author: Joyce Oramel Hertzler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-11-21

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1000734757

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This book, originally published in 1923, embodies two related and yet distinct types of sociological endeavour. It is a study in the history of social thought, a field which had only been receiving serious and widespread attention in recent years, and attempts to give an historical cross-section of representative Utopian thought at the time. 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. It was the first book that attempted to give an unprejudiced, systematic treatment of the social Utopias as a whole.

Breve historia de la utopía
Breve historia de la utopía

Author: Rafael Herrera Guillén

Publisher: Nowtilus

Published: 2013-09-02

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 8499675239

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"Desde la República de Platón o la Nueva Atlántida de Bacon, hasta el mayo del 68, la globalización y los indignados. Todas las claves filosóficas y culturales de las principales ideas utópicas que han dado identidad a cada época histórica. La apasionante crónica de la constante búsqueda de un mundo mejor."(Agapea) "Por tanto, a lo largo de las páginas de este libro, cada época histórica puede conocerse por lo que no fue, es decir, por lo que anheló llegar a ser. De este modo, podemos ver cómo en cada uno de los siglos las utopías se orientaban a solucionar los problemas que acaecían a la mayoría de la población o a las mayores debilidades de cada momento."(Todo literatura) Un ensayo que nos descubre un anhelo humano y, por ello, presente en toda la historia de la humanidad: el deseo de un mundo mejor y más justo. El objetivo de Breve Historia de la Utopía es demostrar que el pensamiento utópico y el diseño de utopías no han sido una mera divagación o una cuestión marginal a lo largo de la historia del pensamiento occidental. Son numerosas las teorías utópicas y también los intentos de aplicación práctica de las mismas, desde la República de Platón hasta las corrientes altermundistas actuales, pasando por el buen salvaje de Rousseau o Mayo del 68 y sin dejar de lado propuestas radicales que, en sus orígenes también fueron utopías como el stalinismo o el nazismo. Un recorrido imprescindible por la historia de las ideas. Rafael Herrera considera que es tan importante, a la hora de estudiar las sociedades humanas, lo que estas fueron como lo que estas quisieron ser, un estudio de las distintas propuestas de sociedades utópicas es fundamental, habida cuenta que estas nacen de una noción ontológica y netamente humana: la certeza de que la sociedad en la que vivimos es mejorable.

The Last Utopia
The Last Utopia

Author: Samuel Moyn

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2012-03-05

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 0674256522

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Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.