Utopian Thinking in Law, Politics, Architecture and Technology

Hope in a Hopeless World

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

This innovative book explores the role of utopian thinking in law and politics, including alternative forms of social engineering, such as technology and architecture. Building on Levitas’ Utopia as Method, the topic of utopia is addressed within the book from a multidisciplinary perspective.The book addresses central questions surrounding utopian thinking: What are its implications for law and politics? To what extent does it constitute a desirable vision? What are its risks or dangers? How is utopia related to ideology? An impressive selection of contributors reflect on the challenge of utopianism and its attraction, advancing the global public debate on social and political issues. Divided into three accessible parts, this book discusses the relationship between utopia and the law, the notion of utopian politics and utopia in architecture and technology.Addressing the topic of utopia from a variety of perspectives, this book will be an interesting read for academic scholars and students in the field of law, legal and political theory, philosophy, ethics, sociology, religious studies, technology and architecture. In particular, it is relevant for scholars who are interested in the dynamics of social, legal and political change.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-09-23
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781803921396

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Lag och samhälle inom Juridik
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Mer om författaren

Edited by Bart van Klink, Professor of Legal Methodology, Department of Legal Theory and Legal History, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Marta Soniewicka, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy of Law and Legal Ethics, Jagiellonian University, Poland and Leon van den Broeke, Extraordinary Professor of Theology of Law and Church Polity, Theologische Universiteit Kampen and Associate Professor of Religion, Law, and Society, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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‘Stimulating and provocative, this interesting collection tackles utopia from diverse disciplinary, theoretical, and political angles. Drawing on secular and religious traditions, contributors demonstrate utopian thinking’s enduring vitality and significance. With hope, faith, humanity, and the imagination, at its centre, this book explores what utopia can and cannot mean, be, and do.’

Innehållsförteckning

Contents:PART I UTOPIA AND THE LAW: SKETCHES FORA NEW SOCIETY1 Introduction: A return to utopia 2Bart van Klink, Marta Soniewicka and Leon van den Broeke2 Finding hope in hopeless times 19Lynne Copson3 The rule of law: Between ideology and utopia 38Bart van Klink4 Legislative hope and utopia 59Carinne Elion-Valter5 A secular form of grace: A place for utopia in law 76Leon van den BroekePART II UTOPIAN POLITICS: REDEMPTION OR A‘RECIPE FOR BLOODSHED’?6 The politics of hope: Utopia as an exercise in social imagination 96Marta Soniewicka7 The utopian ideals of the political order of the EuropeanUnion: Is a European republic possible? 116Jan Willem Sap8 ‘The coming community’: Agamben’s vision of messianic politics 134Oliver W. Lembcke9 The allure of utopia: Klaas Schilder’s stress on therelevance of hic et nunc 150George Harinck10 The Islamic state 167Maurits BergerPART III UTOPIA IN ARCHITECTURE ANDTECHNOLOGY: THE QUEST FOR PERFECTION11 An ideal city vs 21st-century pragmatism 187Ernestyna Szpakowska-Loranc12 Planning utopia 207Danielle Chevalier and Yannis Tzaninis13 Technological utopias: Promises of the unlimited 226Marc J. de Vries14 A better way of being? Human rights, transhumanism and‘the utopian standpoint of man’ 245Britta van Beers15 The posthuman: Around the vanishing point of utopia 266Anna Bugajska16 Being an agent in a robot and artificial intelligence age:Potentiality or dystopia? 284Zeynep İspir and Şükrü KeleşIndex