Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of ModernityUniversity of California Press, 04.06.2002 - 323 Seiten Drawing from literary history, social theory, and political critique, this far-reaching study explores the utopian narrative as a medium for understanding the social space of the modern nation-state. Considering the narrative utopia from its earliest manifestation in Thomas More's sixteenth-century work Utopia to some of the most influential utopias of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book is an astute study of a literary genre as well as a nuanced dialectical meditation on the history of utopian thinking as a quintessential history of modernity. As he unravels the dialectics at work in the utopian narrative, Wegner gives an ambitious synthetic discussion of theories of modernity, considering and evaluating the ideas of writers such as Ernst Bloch, Louis Marin, Gilles Deleuze, Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Henri Lefebvre, Paul de Man, Karl Mannheim, Mikhail Bakhtin, Jürgen Habermas, Slavoj Zizek, and Homi Bhabha. |
Inhalt
Genre and the Spatial Histories of Modernity | 1 |
The Institutional Being of Genre | 4 |
Space and Modernity | 10 |
Estrangement and the Temporality of Utopia | 17 |
Utopia and the Birth of Nations | 27 |
Utopiques and Conceptualized Space | 34 |
Crime and History | 40 |
Utopia and the NationThing | 45 |
Nameless Formless Things | 119 |
Gaseous Vertebrate | 126 |
Simplification and the New Subject of History | 132 |
A Map of Utopias Possible Worlds Zamyatins We and Le Guins The Dispossessed | 147 |
The City and the Country | 151 |
Happiness and Freedom | 158 |
The Play of Possible Worlds | 161 |
The Dispossessed and the Limits of the Horizon | 172 |
Utopia and the Work of Nations | 59 |
Writing the New American RePublic Remembering and Forgetting in Looking Backward | 62 |
The Contemporary CuldeSac | 65 |
Fragmentation | 68 |
Consumerism and Class | 74 |
The Associations of Our Active Lifetime | 81 |
Fogetting | 87 |
The Occluded Future Red Star and The Iron Heel as Critical Utopias | 99 |
Red Star and the Horizons of Russian Modernity | 102 |
The Long Revolution of the Iron Heel | 116 |
Modernity Nostalgia and the Ends of Nations in Orwells Nineteen EightyFour | 183 |
From Utopian Modernism to Naturalist Utopia | 185 |
Nineteen EightyFour as Conservative Utopia | 192 |
The Crisis of Modern Reason | 197 |
The Culture Industry and Secondary Orality | 208 |
Orwells Intellectuals | 216 |
Notes | 229 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Alexander Bogdanov American Anarres anti-utopia argues become Bellamy Bellamy's Bloch Bogdanov's capitalist chap chapter cognitive concept concrete contemporary critical critique crucial cultural Darko Suvin dialectical discussion Dystopia Edward Bellamy emerging English Ernst Bloch Essays Everhard figure Fredric Jameson future genre George Orwell global Guin's horizon human Hythlodaeus ideal identity Ideology imaginary imagined individual institution intellectual Iron Heel Jack London kind labor later Leete Lefebvre Lefebvre's Leonid literary Looking Backward Louis Marin mapping Marin Martian Marxism Mephi modern More's text narrative utopia narrative's nation-state Nineteen Eighty-Four novel organization Orwell's political Possible Worlds practice precisely present produced radical readers reading reality Red Star relationship representation revolution revolutionary role Science Fiction Slavoj Žižek social socialist society Soviet space spatial structure suggests Suvin theory tion tive trans transformation University Press Utopics Verso vision Winston Smith writes York Zamyatin's Žižek
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