Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Preface and Acknowledgements ix
5. Chapter 1 The Necessity of Utopian Thinking: A Cross-National Perspective 1
6. PART I POLITICS, CONSTRUCTION AND FUNCTIONS OF UTOPIAN THINKING
7. Chapter 2 Aspects of the Western Utopian Tradition 17
8. Chapter 3 Visions of the Future 32
9. Chapter 4 Utopia, Contractualism, Human Rights 53
10. Chapter 5 On the Construction of Worlds: Technology and Economy in European Utopias 67
11. PART II ARTIFICIAL WORLDS AND THE ‘NEW MAN’
12. Chapter 6 Bodies in Utopia and Utopian Bodies in Imperial China 89
13. Chapter 7 Science, Technology and Utopia: Perspectives of a Computer- Assisted Evolution of Humankind 104
14. Chapter 8 ‘Thinking about the Unthinkable’: The Virtual as a Place of Utopia 120
15. Chapter 9 Natural Utopianism in Everyday Life Practice – An Elementary Theoretical Model 136
16. PART III MUSEUM AS UTOPIAN LABORATORY
17. Chapter 10 Haunted by Things: Utopias and Their Consequences 151
18. Chapter 11 Art – Museum – Utopia: Five Themes on an Epistemological Construction Site 169
19. Chapter 12 Art, Science, Utopia in the Early Modern Period 174
20. Chapter 13 Utopiary 190
21. PART IV UTOPIA AS A MEDIUM OF CULTURAL COMMUNICATION
22. Chapter 14 The Utopian Vision, East and West 207
23. Chapter 15 Trauma: A Dystopia of the Spirit 230
24. Chapter 16 From Revolutionary to Catastrophic Utopia 247
25. Chapter 17 The Narrative Staging of Image and Counter-Image: On the Poetics of Literary Utopias 263
26. Chapter 18 Rethinking Utopia: A Plea for a Culture of Inspiration 276
27. Notes on Contributors 283
28. Index 293