The Designed Myth
Investigations on the Structure and Effect Condition of Utopia
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Beschreibung
Utopian thinking and utopian designs ostensibly stand for a belief in human progress. The starting point of utopias is almost always a bad present that is to be overcome. But in the 20th and 21st centuries, doubts are growing about a plannable future designed by enlightened reason, about the project of modernity. Utopias are answered by dystopias. This makes clear: The basic motive of utopian thinking is the fear of an uncontrollable future, a fear that could perhaps be overcome by the principle of hope(Ernst Bloch), an amiable illusion.
The contentThe "contradiction" of rationality and irrationality in utopian conceptions ● Fiction and reality ● Model and myth ● Symbol and symbolic action ● Enlightenment to autonomy.
Target groups● Humanities scholars, political scientists, and social scientists● Philosophers● Theologians
The authorProf. Dr. Hans-Georg Soeffner is Professor Emeritus of General Sociology at the University of Konstanz, Senior Fellow and Board Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI), and Permanent Visiting Fellow at the Forum internationale Wissenschaft of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.
Utopian thinking and utopian designs ostensibly represent a belief in human progress. The starting point of utopias is almost always a bad present that is to be overcome. But in the 20th and 21st centuries, doubts are growing about a plannable future designed by enlightened reason, about the project of modernity. Utopias are answered by dystopias. This makes it clear: the basic motif of utopian thinking is the fear of an uncontrollable future, a fear that could perhaps be overcome by the principle of hope (Ernst Bloch), an amiable illusion.
The Content
The "contradiction" of rationality and irrationality in utopian conceptions
● Fiction and reality
● Model and myth
● Symbol and symbolic action
● Enlightenment to autonomy.
The target groups
● Humanities scholars, political scientists and social scientists
● Philosophers
● Theologians
Theauthor Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Soeffner is Professor Emeritus of General Sociology at the University of Konstanz, Senior Fellow and Board Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI) and Permanent Visiting Fellow at the Forum internationale Wissenschaft of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.Linking History and Diagnosis of the Times Overview of utopian and dystopian literature On rationality and irrationality in utopian conceptions
Autor*in
Hans-Georg Soeffner
Themen in »The Designed Myth«
Dystopia Fiction Reality Counter-utopia Myth Time diagnosis