History And Utopia

Author : E. M. Cioran
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628724668
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History and Utopia written by E. M. Cioran and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Only a monster can allow himself the luxury of seeing things as they are,” writes E. M. Cioran, the Romanian-born philosopher who has rightly been compared to Samuel Beckett. In History and Utopia, Cioran the monster writes of politics in its broadest sense, of history, and of the utopian dream. His views are, to say the least, provocative. In one essay he casts a scathing look at democracy, that “festival of mediocrity”; in another he turns his uncompromising gaze on Russia, its history, its evolution, and what he calls “the virtues of liberty.” In the dark shadow of Stalin and Hitler, he writes of tyrants and tyranny with rare lucidity and convincing logic. In “Odyssey of Rancor,” he examines the deep-rooted dream in all of us to “hate our neighbors,” to take immediate and irremediable revenge. And, in the final essay, he analyzes the notion of the “golden age,” the biblical Eden, the utopia of so many poets and thinkers.

Author : J. Bradford DeLong
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465023363
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slouching Towards Utopia written by J. Bradford DeLong and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world’s leading economists, offering a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, but left us unsatisfied “A magisterial history.”—​Paul Krugman Named a Best Book of 2022 by Financial Times * Economist * Fast Company Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset by a growing population. Then came a great shift: invention sprinted forward, doubling our technological capabilities each generation and utterly transforming the economy again and again. Our ancestors would have presumed we would have used such powers to build utopia. But it was not so. When 1870–2010 ended, the world instead saw global warming; economic depression, uncertainty, and inequality; and broad rejection of the status quo. Economist Brad DeLong’s Slouching Towards Utopia tells the story of how this unprecedented explosion of material wealth occurred, how it transformed the globe, and why it failed to deliver us to utopia. Of remarkable breadth and ambition, it reveals the last century to have been less a march of progress than a slouch in the right direction.

Author : Samuel Moyn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674256522
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Utopia written by Samuel Moyn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Gregory Claeys
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500251744
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Searching for Utopia written by Gregory Claeys and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of a perennially powerful idea: the quest for the ideal society from classical times to the present day.

Author : Mikhail Geller
Publisher : New York : Summit Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Utopia in Power written by Mikhail Geller and published by New York : Summit Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emile M. Cioran
Publisher : Quartet Books (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780704301412
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History and Utopia written by Emile M. Cioran and published by Quartet Books (UK). This book was released on 1996 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative work, Cioran, the Romanian-born philosopher, writes of politics in their broadest sense, of history, and of the utopian dream

Author : Rosemary Wakeman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022634603X
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practicing Utopia written by Rosemary Wakeman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The typical town springs up around a natural resource such as a river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harbour or in proximity to a larger, already thriving town. Not so with 'new towns, ' which are created by decree rather than out of necessity and are often intended to break from the tendencies of past development. New towns aren't a new thing but these utopian developments saw a resurgence in the 20th century. Rosemary Wakeman gives us a sweeping view of the new town movement as a global phenomenon, from Tapiola in Finland to Islamabad in Pakistan, Cergy-Pontoise in France to Irvine in California.

Author : Ian Tod
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Utopia written by Ian Tod and published by Harmony. This book was released on 1978 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lukas Engelmann
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262538733
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sulphuric Utopias written by Lukas Engelmann and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How early twentieth century fumigation technologies transformed maritime quarantine practices and inspired utopian visions of disease-free global trade. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, fumigation technologies transformed global practices of maritime quarantine through chemical and engineering innovation. One of these technologies, the widely used Clayton machine, blasted sulphuric acid gas through a docked ship in an effort to eliminate pathogens, insects, and rats while leaving the cargo and the structure of the vessel unharmed, shortening its time in quarantine and minimizing the risk of importing infectious diseases. In Sulphuric Utopias, Lukas Engelmann and Christos Lynteris examine this overlooked but historically crucial practice at the intersection of epidemiology, hygiene, applied chemistry, and engineering. They show how maritime fumigation inspired utopian visions of disease-free trade to improve global shipping and to encourage universally applicable standards of sanitation and hygiene. Engelmann and Lynteris chart the history of ideas about fumigation, disinfection, and quarantine, and chronicle the development of the Clayton machine in 1880s New Orleans. Built by the Louisiana Board of Health and adapted and patented by Thomas Clayton, the machine offered a barrier against bacteria and pests and enabled a highway to global trade. Engelmann and Lynteris chronicle the Clayton machine's success and examine its competitors, including carbon-based fumigation methods in Germany and the Ottoman Empire as well as the “Sulfurozador” in Argentina. They follow the international standardization of maritime fumigation and explore the Clayton machine's decline after World War I, when visions of “sulphuric utopia” were replaced by a pragmatic acknowledgment of epidemiological complexity.

Author : Arvind Rajagopal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351558706
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media and Utopia written by Arvind Rajagopal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collective political projects have become ephemeral and are subject to radical forms of erasure through cooptation, division, redefinition or intimidation in present times. Media and Utopia responds to the resulting crisis of the social by investigating the links between mediation and political imagination. This volume addresses those utopian spaces historically constituted through media, and analyses the conditions that made them possible. Individual essays deal with non-Western histories of technopolitics through distinctive perspectives on how to conceive the relationship between social form, everyday life, and utopian possibility, and by examining a range of media formats and genres from print, sound, and film to new media. With contributions from major scholars in the field, this book will be of interest to researchers and scholars of media studies, culture studies, sociology, modern South Asian history, and politics.