Utopian Horizons

Zsolt Czigányik is senior lecturer at Eötvös Loránd University, and Humanities Initiative Fellow at Central European University, Budapest.

• List of FiguresIntroduction – Utopianism: Literary and PoliticalZsolt CzigányikPART I. Utopia with a Political Focus1. Ideology and Utopia: Karl Mannheim and Paul RicoeurLyman Tower Sargent2. When Does Utopianism Produce Dystopia?Gregory Claeys3. From the Political Utopia to the Philosophical Utopia—and Rescuing the Political Utopia, on Second ThoughtFátima Vieira4. Third Way Utopianism: Anarcho-Democratic and Liberal Socialist Ideas in Central EuropeAndrás Bozóki and Miklós Sükösd5. George Orwell, Soviet Studies, and the “Soviet Subjectivity” DebateDmitry HalavachPART II. Utopia with a Literary Focus6. Marxist Utopianism and Modern Irish Drama, 1884–1904: William Morris, W. B. Yeats, and G. B. ShawEglantina Remport7. Civil Religion as Utopian Ideology: A Case Study of H. G. WellsKároly Pintér8. Negative Utopia in Central Europe: Kazohinia and the Dystopian Political Climate of the 1930sZsolt Czigányik9. What They Were Going to Do About It: Huxley’s Peace Pamphlet in Pre-War HungaryÁkos Farkas10. The City in Ruins: Post-9/11 Representations of Cataclysmic New York on FilmVera Benczik11. Realism and Utopianism Reconsidered: A Political Theoretical Reading of A Song of Ice and FireZoltán Gábor SzűcsAfterwordZsolt CzigányikList of contributorsIndex

"Utopia is contextual and so is the research into the subject matter. The present work of Central European inquiries into utopia is attached to a cultural spine, that is neither Anglo-American nor too concerned with capitalism. Most of the essays convey a sharp sense of the historical transition of the region over the last century-and-a-half from feudalism and empire to fascism, communism, capitalism, and emerging and incipient democracies. Czigányik brackets the essays with an introduction and an afterword. He stresses the importance of a cross-disciplinary approach and - using Hayden White as his theoretical mainstay - gives a fair amount of space to demonstrating the interaction between literary studies and the social sciences."