The Story of Utopias
Author: Lewis Mumford
Publisher:
Published: 1922
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13:
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Cruising Utopia
Author: José Esteban Muñoz
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2009-11-01
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0814796001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist. Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernst Bloch, José Esteban Muñoz recalls the queer past for guidance in presaging its future. He considers the work of seminal artists and writers such as Andy Warhol, LeRoi Jones, Frank O’Hara, Ray Johnson, Fred Herko, Samuel Delany, and Elizabeth Bishop, alongside contemporary performance and visual artists like Dynasty Handbag, My Barbarian, Luke Dowd, Tony Just, and Kevin McCarty in order to decipher the anticipatory illumination of art and its uncanny ability to open windows to the future. In a startling repudiation of what the LGBT movement has held dear, Muñoz contends that queerness is instead a futurity bound phenomenon, a "not yet here" that critically engages pragmatic presentism. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the future, Cruising Utopia argues that the here and now are not enough and issues an urgent call for the revivification of the queer political imagination.
Searching for Utopia
Author: Gregory Claeys
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780500251744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated history of a perennially powerful idea: the quest for the ideal society from classical times to the present day.
Utopia and Counterutopia in the "Quixote"
Author: José Antonio Maravall
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780814322949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA translation of a classic interpretation of Spain's national novel, first published in Spanish in 1976 (expanded from the 1948 version). Argues that Don Quixote was not nearly as quixotic to his original 16th century readers as he is today. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
A Companion to Early Modern Spanish Imperial Political and Social Thought
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-01-29
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9004421882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion aims to give an up-to-date overview of the historical context and the conceptual framework of Spanish imperial expansion during the early modern period, mostly during the 16th century. It intends to offer a nuanced and balanced account of the complexities of this historically controversial period analyzing first its historical underpinnings, then shedding light on the normative language behind imperial theorizing and finally discussing issues that arose with the experience of the conquest of American polities, such as colonialism, slavery or utopia. The aim of this volume is to uncover the structural and normative elements of the theological, legal and philosophical arguments about Spanish imperial ambitions in the early modern period. Contributors are Manuel Herrero Sánchez, José Luis Egío, Christiane Birr, Miguel Anxo Pena González, Tamar Herzog, Merio Scattola, Virpi Mäkinen, Wim Decock, Christian Schäfer, Francisco Castilla Urbano, Daniel Schwartz, Felipe Castañeda, José Luis Ramos Gorostiza, Luis Perdices de Blas, Beatriz Fernández Herrero.
La estructura paradojal de la realidad humana.
Author: Lorenzo Toribio
Publisher: Eduvim
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9871727453
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Reasonableness and interpretation
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Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9783825866389
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 2002 issue of the Yearbook concerns the notion of reasonableness in philosohical, legal and economic domains. After going back over the main definition of the concept of reasonable in greek philosophy, the analysis carried out in this volume deals with the role played by the notion of reasonableness in practical philosophy and namely according to hermeneutical view of it. With regard to legal field, the notion of reasonableness is a core notion in constitutional law and it assumes specific meanings in private, criminal, international, and administrative law. Reasonableness turns out to be crucial with regard to many topics, such as interpretation of rights, balancing of fundamental rights, and interpretation of standards.
The Utopian Impulse in Latin America
Author: K. Beauchesne
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-10-24
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0230339611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of the concept of utopia in Latin America from the earliest accounts of the New World to current cultural production, the carefully selected essays in this volume represent the latest research on the topic by some of the most important Latin Americanists working in North American academia today.
Dreams & Realities
Author: Annette Gomis Van Heteren
Publisher: Universidad Almería
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9788482400808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe present book contains a collection of essays by the members of the research group "Estudios de Narrativa en Lengua Inglesa. Historia, crítica, utopía y ciencia ficción." Its members teach English literature at the Universities of Almería and Granada and share a common interest in literary utopias. There is an introductory chapter by the Director of the Group, Miguel Martínez, on definitions and backgrounds of utopian criticism, followed by Margarita Carretero's analysis of J.R.R.Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings from the perspective of the utopian genre; then two essays by Annette Gomis on George Orwell's 1984; Mervyn Smale explores Dickens' social satire in his earliest works of fiction while Celia Wallhead is the author of the two concluding chapters on Hard Times and Nice Work, and on Babel Tower. Annette Gomis, B.A. (Trinity College), M.Sc. (Aston) & Ph.D. (Granada), teaches English at the University of Almería and has previously lectured at the Universities of Valencia and Granada. Miguel Martínez, M.A. (Granada), ACEFL (Salford) and Ph.D.(Bologna) is, since 1996, Professor of English at UALM. He has been a Fulbright Fellow at Yale and Visiting Professor at the University of Delaware.
The Philosophy of Utopia
Author: Barbara Goodwin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1136337563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection addresses the important function of utopianism in social and political philosophy and includes debate on what its future role will be in a period dominated by dystopian nightmare scenarios.
