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Utopian thinking in law, politics, architecture and technology : hope in a hopeless world / edited by Bart van Klink (Professor of legal methodology, department of legal theory and legal history, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Marta Soniewicka (associate professor, department of philosophy of law and legal ethics, Jagiellonian University, Poland), and Leon van den Broeke (extraordinary professor of theology of law and church polity, Theologische Universiteit Kampen and associate professor of religion, law, and society, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands).
van Kirk, Bart, editor.; Soniewicka, Marta editor.; Broeke, Leon van den editor.; Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.
2022
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Utopian thinking in law, politics, architecture and technology : hope in a hopeless world / edited by Bart van Klink (Professor of legal methodology, department of legal theory and legal history, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Marta Soniewicka (associate professor, department of philosophy of law and legal ethics, Jagiellonian University, Poland), and Leon van den Broeke (extraordinary professor of theology of law and church polity, Theologische Universiteit Kampen and associate professor of religion, law, and society, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands).
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Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022.
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"This innovative book explores the role of utopian thinking in law and politics, including alternative forms of social engineering, such as technology and architecture. Building on Levitas' Utopia as Method, the topic of utopia is addressed within the book from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book addresses central questions surrounding utopian thinking: What are its implications for law and politics? To what extent does it constitute a desirable vision? What are its risks or dangers? How is utopia related to ideology? An impressive selection of contributors reflect on the challenge of utopianism and its attraction, advancing the global public debate on social and political issues. Divided into three accessible parts, this book discusses the relationship between utopia and the law, the notion of utopian politics and utopia in architecture and technology. Addressing the topic of utopia from a variety of perspectives, this book will be an interesting read for academic scholars and students in the field of law, legal and political theory, philosophy, ethics, sociology, religious studies, technology and architecture. In particular, it is relevant for scholars who are interested in the dynamics of social, legal and political change"-- Provided by publisher.
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van Kirk, Bart, editor.
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Contents: Part I: Utopia and the law: Sketches for a new society
1. Introduction: A return to utopia / Bart van Klink, Marta Soniewicka and Leon van den Broeke
2. Finding hope in hopeless times / Lynne Copson
3. The rule of law: Between ideology and utopia / Bart van Klink
4. Legislative hope and utopia / Carinne Elion-Valter
5. A secular form of grace: A place for utopia in law / Leon van den Broeke
Part II: Utopian politics: Redemption or a 'recipe for bloodshed'?
6. The politics of hope: Utopia as an exercise in social imagination / Marta Soniewicka
7. The utopian ideals of the political order of the European Union: Is a european republic possible? / Jan Willem Sap
8. 'The coming community': Agamben's vision of messianic politics / Oliver W. Lembcke
9. The allure of utopia: Klaas schilder's stress on the relevance of hic et nunc / George Harinck
10. The Islamic state / Maurits Berger
Part III: Utopia in architecture and technology: The quest for perfection
11. An ideal city vs 21st-century pragmatism / Ernestyna Szpakowska-Loranc
12. Planning utopia / Danielle Chevalier and Yannis Tzaninis
13. Technological utopias: Promises of the unlimited / Marc J. de Vries
14. A better way of being? Human rights, transhumanism and 'the utopian standpoint of man' / Britta van Beers
15. The posthuman: Around the vanishing point of utopia / Anna Bugajska
16. Being an agent in a robot and artificial intelligence age: Potentiality or dystopia? / Zeynep İspir and Şükrü Keleş
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