List of Figures
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
Zsolt Cziganyik is Senior Lecturer at Eotvos Lorand University and Humanities Initiative Fellow at Central European University, Budapest.
Science Fiction Studies "Utopian Horizons is a recent contribution
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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
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extremely well researched and many are eloquently written, which is
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