Lewis MumfordThe Story of Utopias
Eine
Geschichte
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1922 *1895 200 Seiten detopia : |
detopia-2023: Das erste moderne Sachbuch über Utopien - und bislang noch nicht auf deutsch erschienen.
Dies ist ein Überblick über die Entwicklung des Konzepts der Utopie, von einem der führenden Stadtplanungstheoretikern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Dies war Mumfords erstes Buch. Er beginnt mit einem Überblick über die großen, teils bekannten, teils bekannten Utopien weniger. Wir schauen uns Platons Republik an, More's Utopia, Andreæ's Christanopolis, Bacons Neues Atlantis, Campanellas Stadt der Sonne, Fouriers Phalanxen, Cabets Icaria, Bellamys Rückblick, Morris' Nachrichten aus dem Nirgendwo und schließlich H.G. Wells' utopische Fiktion. Im letzten Teil des Buches erkundet Mumford die Aussichten für Utopia und setzt sie in Beziehung zu den Realitäten der Stadtplanung. Mumfords Prosastil ist fesselnd und dies ist eine großartige Einführung in dieses faszinierendes Thema. (maschinell übersetzt)
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Inhalt 1922übersetzt mit deepl 2023 von Ferdinand Wagner in Rosenheim/Südbayern; momentan meist pdfEinleitung von H. Loon (*1882)
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Englischer Volltext hier sacred-texts.com/utopia/sou/index.htm + archive.org/details/aew1111.0001.001.umich.edu/page/I
Eine thematische Fortschreibung 1970, also 50 Jahre später in Fortschritt als Science-Fiction (Mythos der Maschine)
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With an Introduction by HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON
"A Map of the World that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at...." Einleitung.pdf von Hendrick Willem Van Loon vom 14.09.1922 wikipedia Hendrik_Willem_van_Loon 1882-1944 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS - DANKSAGUNGEN The first outline of this book dates back ten years; and since then I have woven it and rewoven it in my mind. The actual work of composition was started by a suggestion from Mr. Van Wyck Brooks; and without Mr. Brooks’ encouragement I should perhaps never have begun or carried through the task. The general background of ideas has been heavily colored by my contacts with Professor Patrick Geddes, through his books and by correspondence; and I owe a debt to him I have not always been able to acknowledge in direct reference or in quotation marks. I take the opportunity here to express the hearty gratitude which might otherwise have been conveyed in the more archaic form of a dedication. In the revision of the MS. I have been blessed with the generous advice and criticism of a number of friends; in particular, Mr. Clarence Britten, Mr. Herbert Feis, Mr. Geroid Robinson, and Miss Sophia Wittenberg, each of whom performed a unique service. To Messrs. Victor Branford and Alexander Farquharson of the Sociological Society of Great Britain I am indebted for many pertinent suggestions. My thanks are also due to the editors of The Freeman for permission to use extracts from two articles: Towards a Humanist Synthesis and Beauty and the Picturesque. Finally, Mr. Hendrik van Loon's friendly interest calls for a departing beam of gratitude. LEWIS MUMFORD. New York City, July, 1922.
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1. How the will-to-utopia causes men to live in two worlds, and how, therefore, we re-read
the
Story of Utopia — the other half of the Story of Mankind. =9=
2. How the Greekslived in a
New World, and utopia seemed just round the corner. How Plato in the
Republic is chiefly concerned with what will hold the ideal city
together. =27=
3. How something happened to
utopia between Plato and Sir Thomas More; and how utopia was discovered
again, along with the New World. =57=
4. How the new Humanism of
the Renascence brings us within sight of Christianopolis; and how we
have for the first time aglimpse of a modern utopia. =79=
5. How Bacon and Campanella,
who have a great reputation as utopians, are little better than echoes
of the men who went before them. =101=
6. How something happened in
the eighteenth century which made men "furiouslyto think," and how a
whole group of utopias sprang out ofthe up turned soil of industrialism.
=111=
7. How someutopians have
thought that a good community rested at bottomon the right division and
use of land; and what sort of communities these land-animals projected.
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8. How Étienne Cabet dreamed
of a new Napoleon called Icar, and a new France called Icaria; and how
his utopia, with that which Edward Bellamy shows us in Looking Backward,
gives us a hint of what machinery might bring us to if the
industrial organization were nationalized. =119=
9. How William Morris and W.
H. Hudson renew the classic tradition of utopias; and how, finally, Mr.
H. G. Wells sums up and clarifies the utopias of the past, and brings
them into contact with the world of the present. (171)
10. How the Country House
and Coketown became the utopias of the modern age; and how they made the
world over in their image. =191=
11. How we reckon upaccounts
with the one-sided utopias of the partisans. =235=
12. How the half-worlds must
go, and how eutopia may come; and what we need before we can build
Jerusalem in any green and pleasant land. =263=
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