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The debate about utopias from a sociological perspective

Richard Kilminster

Human Figurations, 2014, Vol.3 (2)

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Título:
The debate about utopias from a sociological perspective
Autor: Richard Kilminster
Assuntos: Apel ; Bauman ; communism ; Elias ; socialism ; Utopias
É parte de: Human Figurations, 2014, Vol.3 (2)
Notas: Human Figurations: vol. 3, no. 2
(issn) 2166-6644
(dlps) 11217607.0003.203
(aleph) missing
Descrição: This article provides a sociological perspective on the study of utopias and utopian thinking by focussing on the disciplinary assumptions of various major writers on the subject. The historians deploy a static and theoryless narrative code lacking a dynamic sense of social structure. Futurologists have made specific, but limited and risky, statistical predictions of future social trends. Sociologists have shown how modern socialist utopias presuppose that society is malleable and amenable to secular control. Others have speculated about the catalytic function of utopias in the face of the repressive Soviet regime. The social philosophers of the ‘Critical Theory’ school have justified the possibility of the socialist utopia through ever more complex transcendental arguments. The article doubts the cognitive value of the results and warns of the costs of striving to achieve the unachievable.
Editor: Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library
Idioma: Inglês

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