03198nam a22004335i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001600172072001600188072002300204072001500227100009000242245013800332250001800470264007600488300003500564336002600599337002600625338003600651347002400687505018100711520152400892650002902416650002202445650004202467650003202509710003402541773002602575776003602601776003602637856004602673912001402719912001402733999001702747978-3-658-39702-9DE-He21320251030112630.0cr nn 008mamaa240715s2024    gw |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97836583970299978-3-658-39702-97 a10.1007/978-3-658-39702-92doi 4aBD175-175.5 7aJHB2bicssc 7aSOC0260002bisacsh 7aJHB2thema1 aSoeffner, Hans-Georg.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut98062014aThe Designed Mythh[electronic resource] :bInvestigations on the Structure and Effect Condition of Utopia /cby Hans-Georg Soeffner.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aWiesbaden :bSpringer Fachmedien Wiesbaden :bImprint: Springer,c2024.  aXXXI, 238 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aThe "contradiction" of rationality and irrationality in utopian conceptions -- Fiction and reality -- Model and myth -- Symbol and symbolic action -- Enlightenment to autonomy.  aUtopian 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. 0aKnowledge, Sociology of. 0aSociology.95719314aSociology of Knowledge and Discourse.24aSociological Theory.9669812 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978365839701208iPrinted edition:z978365839703640uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-39702-9  aZDB-2-SLS  aZDB-2-SXS  c61619d61619