Utopian Horizons

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

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