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- Title
Manglernes drømme.
- Authors
Nygaard, Bertel
- Abstract
In calling for the adoption of the utopian as a category of historical study, this article discusses different attempts at overcoming traditional dichotomies between utopian fantasy and historical realism. In recent decades, hermeneutical approaches to history - as conceived by Reinhart Koselleck, Paul Ricoeur, and Jörn Rüsen - have emphasized utopian thought as an important element in the human creative consciousness, contributing a basic openness to historically constructed identities and nurturing the dynamic character of historical consciousness. This article proposes a broader definition of the utopian as an aspect of negation in the prevailing state of affairs - an aspect inherent to socially transformative activity in general, yet unavoidably expressed in specific historical forms. Such an approach, inspired by Ernst Bloch and Fredric Jameson among others, may provide for nuanced analyses of widely different types of utopian activity and imagination, including the complex interrelations between ideology and utopia as well as between the comprehensive category of the utopian and more traditional, narrowly defined conceptions of utopia as a genre or specific mode of social thought.
- Publication
Scandia, 2014, Vol 80, Issue 1, p70
- ISSN
0036-5483
- Publication type
Article