Third Way Utopianism: Anarcho-Democratic and Liberal Socialist Ideas in Central Europe

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. INTRODUCTION Utopianism: Literary and Political 1
5. PART ONE Utopia with a Political Focus
6. Ideology and Utopia: Karl Mannheim and Paul Ricoeur 17
7. When Does Utopianism Produce Dystopia? 41
8. From the Political Utopia to the Philosophical Utopia—and Rescuing the Political Utopia, on Second Thought 63
9. Third Way Utopianism: Anarcho-Democratic and Liberal Socialist Ideas in Central Europe 77
10. George Orwell, Soviet Studies, and the “Soviet Subjectivity” Debate 103
11. PART TWO Utopia with a Literary Focus
12. Marxist Utopianism and Modern Irish Drama, 1884–1904: William Morris, W. B. Yeats, and G. B. Shaw 119
13. Civil Religion as Utopian Ideology: A Case Study of H. G. Wells 145
14. Negative Utopia in Central Europe: Kazohinia and the Dystopian Political Climate of the 1930s 161
15. What They Were Going to Do About It: Huxley’s Peace Pamphlet in Pre-War Hungary 181
16. The City in Ruins: Post-9/11 Representations of Cataclysmic New York on Film 201
17. Realism and Utopianism Reconsidered: A Political Theoretical Reading of A Song of Ice and Fire 219
18. AFTERWORD 239
19. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 249
20. Index 251