Les utopies de la ville

Les utopies de la ville
Author: Yvette Marin
Publisher: Presses Univ. Franche-Comté
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2001
Genre: Cities and towns
ISBN: 9782846270311

La ville est ici saisie par des théoriciens en sciences sociales, en arts plastiques, en littérature ainsi que par des praticiens de la ville, paysagistes, architectes ou urbanistes. A travers les différents éclairages apportés, c'est une nouvelle lecture de la ville que nous cherchons à dégager. Doit-elle continuer à osciller entre affranchissement et désenchantement, ou peut-on raisonnablement espérer la situer dans un nouvel espace - utopique? - qui impliquerait la révision des cultures?

Educational Ills and the (Im)possibility of Utopia

Educational Ills and the (Im)possibility of Utopia
Author: Joff Bradley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2020-05-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000052729

As a bold provocation to reimagine what the philosophy of education might mean in the 21st century, this book responds to the exhaustion of present theoretical models and indeed the degradation of fabulative thought in its current prospectus. The contributors, from Asia, the Americas, and Europe, proffer a frank response to the everyday reality of the classroom where teachers compete with electronic devices for the attention of students whose minds are literally elsewhere, cocooned in the noospheric ether. Outside of lecture halls the world is suffering the rise of fascism, panic, and anger driven by precarious employment, and a looming fatalism and resignation in the face of ecological calamity. These developments have led to an avalanche of psychical woes afflicting young people ranging from trauma, the loss of hope and, in extremis, violence and suicide. The concerned and committed writers of this volume therefore raise the timely question of the return of utopia as a fitting, desperate, and indeed necessary response to the ecological, existential, and pedagogical crises spreading across the planet. At this most crucial juncture in human history, the excellent contributions to this book offer singularly unique perspectives regarding the possibility/impossibility of utopia. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal, Educational Philosophy and Theory.

The State as Utopia

The State as Utopia
Author: Jürgen Backhaus
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2010-11-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1441975004

This book examines utopias in classical political economy and is based on the papers presented by leading scholars at the 22nd Heilbronn Symposium in the Economics and the Social Sciences. The book focuses on the tension between the State and utopia (the State as utopia vs. utopia instead of a state). The contributors also study the question of whether seafaring and landlocked states visualize the commonwealth differently and develop different utopias, and it is concluded they do not. The volume therefore follows the refutation of the Schumpeterian Hypothesis that more concentrated industries stimulate innovation. Though the hypothesis is refuted it still remains important, the chapters argue, because it charts out an entire research program, serves as a benchmark of definite public and private sector boundaries, and defines the grammar of discourse for constitutional economic policy in OECD states. These themes are explored in detail through contributions by economists, philosophers, and social historians. The contributors examine utopias hitherto never or rarely reviewed in the English language, making this book of interest to students and scholars in economics, political science and the history of economic thought.

Utopia

Utopia
Author: David Ayers
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2015-12-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110434784

Utopian hope and dystopian despair are characteristic features of modernism and the avant-garde. Readings of the avant-garde have frequently sought to identify utopian moments coded in its works and activities as optimistic signs of a possible future social life, or as the attempt to preserve hope against the closure of an emergent dystopian present. The fourth volume of the EAM series, European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, casts light on the history, theory and actuality of the utopian and dystopian strands which run through European modernism and the avant-garde from the late 19th to the 21st century. The book’s varied and carefully selected contributions, written by experts from around 20 countries, seek to answer such questions as: · how have modernism and the avant-garde responded to historical circumstance in mapping the form of possible futures for humanity? · how have avant-garde and modernist works presented ideals of living as alternatives to the present? · how have avant-gardists acted with or against the state to remodel human life or to resist the instrumental reduction of life by administration and industrialisation?

Utopia and Dystopia in Postwar Italian Literature

Utopia and Dystopia in Postwar Italian Literature
Author: Daniele Fioretti
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2017-02-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3319465538

This book is about the presence of utopian and dystopian elements in the Italian literary landscape. It focuses on four authors that are representatives of the various positions in the Italian cultural debate: Pasolini, Calvino, Sanguineti, and Volponi. What did concepts like utopia and dystopia mean for these authors? Is it possible to separate utopia from dystopia? What is the role of science fiction in this debate? This book answers these questions, proposing an original interpretation of utopia and of the social role of literature. The book also takes into consideration four of the most influential literary journals in Italy: Officina, il menabò, il verri, and Nuovi Argomenti, that played a central role in the cultural and political debate on utopia in Italy.

Utopia Matters

Utopia Matters
Author: Marinela Freitas
Publisher: Universidade do Porto
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2005
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789728025403

Réécriture Des Mythes

Réécriture Des Mythes
Author: Joëlle Cauville
Publisher: Editions Rodopi
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1997
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9789042001398

Définir de façon univalente la notion de mythe et celle d'utopie semble en soi une entreprise tout à fait utopique. Par ailleurs, jumeler les deux notions, celle du mythe et celle d'utopie, reléve d'un processus de réflexion qui peut facilement être à double tranchant: le mythe, construction par excellende de l'imaginaire humain, ne se situe-t-il pas ailleurs que dans un non-lieu? -- et l'utopie, quant à elle, ne fait-elle pas écho au mythe, à la fois s'en inspirant, le niant et le transformant? Redondance possible, et aussi, parfois, refus des deux domaines à admettre leur interdépendance, cheninement parallèle surtout et création commune de ce qui, en fin de compte, s'avère mythe transformé, utopie revistée. Toutefois, mythes et utopies quels que soient la position choisie, le point de vue défendu, semblent faire bon ménage, à en juger par ce projet, mavec dix-neuf textes couvrant principalement la littérature contemporaine des femmes, mais puisant parfois aux oeuvres antérieures qui ont déjà préparé le terrain, en offrant des visions d'existences idylliques -- ne serait-ce que littéraires.

Utopies Réalisées

Utopies Réalisées
Author: Gilles Ragot
Publisher: Somogy éditions d'art
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2009
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

La région lyonnaise réunit cinq sites emblématiques de l'architecture du xxe siècle. Cet ouvrage en propose la découverte, tel un voyage au coeur du Mouvement moderne architectural et urbain, depuis sa phase pionnière d'avant-garde à Lyon et à Villeurbanne jusqu'à son apogée à Firminy et à Éveux-sur-l'Arbresle, puis sa contestation et son renouvellement à Givors. Porteur des utopies sociales et urbaines du xxe siècle, ces sites sont le fruit de la rencontre entre des architectes d'avant-garde et des maires audacieux, pour qui l'architecture et l'urbanisme modernes peuvent contribuer à un monde meilleur. Gilles Ragot, l'auteur du livre, est historien de l'art, professeur à l'ENS Architecture et Paysage de Bordeaux.

Cruising Utopia

Cruising Utopia
Author: José Esteban Muñoz
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2009-11-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0814757286

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