Utopian Horizons
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Introduction – Utopianism: Literary and Political
Zsolt Czigányik

PART I. Utopia with a Political Focus
1. Ideology and Utopia: Karl Mannheim and Paul Ricoeur
Lyman Tower Sargent
2. When Does Utopianism Produce Dystopia?
Gregory Claeys
3. From the Political Utopia to the Philosophical Utopia—and Rescuing the Political Utopia, on Second Thought
Fátima Vieira
4. Third Way Utopianism: Anarcho-Democratic and Liberal Socialist Ideas in Central Europe
András Bozóki and Miklós Sükösd
5. George Orwell, Soviet Studies, and the “Soviet Subjectivity” Debate
Dmitry Halavach

PART II. Utopia with a Literary Focus
6. Marxist Utopianism and Modern Irish Drama, 1884–1904: William Morris, W. B. Yeats, and G. B. Shaw
Eglantina Remport
7. Civil Religion as Utopian Ideology: A Case Study of H. G. Wells
Károly Pintér
8. Negative Utopia in Central Europe: Kazohinia and the Dystopian Political Climate of the 1930s
Zsolt Czigányik
9. What They Were Going to Do About It: Huxley’s Peace Pamphlet in Pre-War Hungary
Ákos Farkas
10. The City in Ruins: Post-9/11 Representations of Cataclysmic New York on Film
Vera Benczik
11. Realism and Utopianism Reconsidered: A Political Theoretical Reading of A Song of Ice and Fire
Zoltán Gábor Szűcs

Afterword
Zsolt Czigányik

List of contributors
Index

About the Author

Zsolt Cziganyik is Senior Lecturer at Eotvos Lorand University and Humanities Initiative Fellow at Central European University, Budapest.

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Science Fiction Studies "Utopian Horizons is a recent contribution to the ever-expanding field of utopian studies. It seeks to engage with utopianism specifically from a Central European perspective, rupturing the sometimes hegemonic view of utopian studies as a discipline dominated by the Anglo-American/Western European traditions. I am pleased that work such as this is being produced and I hope that there is more to come, because it is all too easy to fall victim to tunnel vision even as one is acutely aware that there is a world beyond one’s own. I was energized, intrigued, and productively perplexed by many of these chapters. They are extremely well researched and many are eloquently written, which is not always the case with academic writing. This is a wonderful collection and will appeal not only to specialists, but also to readers interested in how to make the world a better place without letting it go to hell."
*Science Fiction Studies*

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