03391nam a22004815i 4500 978-3-658-39702-9 DE-He213 20251030112630.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240715s2024 gw | s |||| 0|eng d 9783658397029 978-3-658-39702-9 10.1007/978-3-658-39702-9 doi BD175-175.5 JHB bicssc SOC026000 bisacsh JHB thema Soeffner, Hans-Georg. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 80620 The Designed Myth [electronic resource] : Investigations on the Structure and Effect Condition of Utopia / by Hans-Georg Soeffner. 1st ed. 2024. Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XXXI, 238 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The "contradiction" of rationality and irrationality in utopian conceptions -- Fiction and reality -- Model and myth -- Symbol and symbolic action -- Enlightenment to autonomy. Utopian thinking and utopian designs ostensibly stand for a belief in human progress. The starting point of utopias is almost always a bad present that is to be overcome. But in the 20th and 21st centuries, doubts are growing about a plannable future designed by enlightened reason, about the project of modernity. Utopias are answered by dystopias. This makes clear: The basic motive of utopian thinking is the fear of an uncontrollable future, a fear that could perhaps be overcome by the principle of hope(Ernst Bloch), an amiable illusion. The content The "contradiction" of rationality and irrationality in utopian conceptions ● Fiction and reality ● Model and myth ● Symbol and symbolic action ● Enlightenment to autonomy. Target groups ● Humanities scholars, political scientists, and social scientists ● Philosophers ● Theologians The author Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Soeffner is Professor Emeritus of General Sociology at the University of Konstanz, Senior Fellow and Board Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI), and Permanent Visiting Fellow at the Forum internationale Wissenschaft of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Knowledge, Sociology of. Sociology. 57193 Sociology of Knowledge and Discourse. Sociological Theory. 66981 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783658397012 Printed edition: 9783658397036 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-39702-9 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 61619 61619