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Author: Antonio Cassese
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780191627712
Category: Law
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Realizing Utopia is a collection of essays by a group of innovative international jurists. Its contributors reflect on some of the major legal problems facing the international community and analyse the inconsistencies or inadequacies of current law. They highlight the elements - even if minor, hidden, or emerging - that are likely to lead to future changes or improvements. Finally, they suggest how these elements can be developed, enhanced, and brought to fruition in the next two or three decades, with a view to achieving an improved architecture of world society or, at a minimum, to reshaping some major aspects of international dealings. Contributions to the book thus try to discern the potential, in the present legal construct of world society, that might one day be brought to light in a better world. As the impact of international law on national legal orders continues to increase, this volume takes stock of how far international law has come and how it should continue to develop. The work features an impressive list of contributors, including many of the leading authorities on international law and several judges of the International Court of Justice.
Chapter 5 Growing Expectations of Realizing Utopia in the United States and
Europe Later American Technological Utopians: John Macnie Through Harold
Loeb If no prominent Europeans were genuine technological utopians, this was
not ...
Author: Howard P. Segal
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781118234402
Category: Religion
Page: 224
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This brief history connects the past and present of utopianthought, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, right up topresent day visions of cyberspace communities and paradise. Explores the purpose of utopias, what they reveal about thesocieties who conceive them, and how utopias have changed over thecenturies Unique in including both non-Western and Western visions ofutopia Explores the many forms utopias have taken – propheciesand oratory, writings, political movements, world's fairs, physicalcommunities – and also discusses high-tech and cyberspacevisions for the first time The first book to analyze the implicitly utopian dimensions ofreform crusades like Technocracy of the 1930s and ModernizationTheory of the 1950s, and the laptop classroom initiatives of recentyears
The image of eruption suggests that the utopian space of the pure land is neither
strictly separate from this world of ... in the ongoing process of realizing utopia
through disrupting the closure of the present. for medieval Japanese Buddhists, ...
Author: Daniel Boscaljon
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 9781620329337
Category: Religion
Page: 264
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At present the battle over who defines our future is being waged most publicly by secular and religious fundamentalists. Hope and the Longing for Utopia offers an alternative position, disclosing a conceptual path toward potential worlds that resist a limited view of human potential and the gift of religion. In addition to outlining the value of embracing unknown potentialities, these twelve interdisciplinary essays explore why it has become crucial that we commit to hoping for values that resist traditional ideological commitments. Contextualized by contemporary writing on utopia, and drawing from a wealth of times and cultures ranging from Calvin's Geneva to early twentieth-century Japanese children's stories to Hollywood cinema, these essays cumulatively disclose the fundamental importance of resisting tantalizing certainties while considering the importance of the unknown and unknowable. Beginning with a set of four essays outlining the importance of hope and utopia as diagnostic concepts, and following with four concrete examples, the collection ends with a set of essays that provide theological speculations on the need to embrace finitude and limitations in a world increasingly enframed by secularizing impulses. Overall, this book discloses how hope and utopia illuminate ways to think past simplified wishes for the future.
... an explication of a Wellsian view of personality; it is at the level of the individual
person that any hope for initiating a gen- uinely utopian process must begin, and
it is here that the central problems of realizing utopia in any sense at all reside.
Author: Justin E.A. Busch
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786446056
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 212
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"This book begins with types of individuals who could create and live in ideal societies. It then discusses the state and how Wells' utopian thought requires a permanent commitment to expanding freedom. The final chapter covers death and how utopian thought can profoundly reshape the reader's understanding of position relative to current and future societies"--Provided by publisher.
in Cassese, Realizing Utopia, 118–35 at 129. 205 See e.g. G. I. Tunkin, Theory of
International Law, trans. W. E. Butler (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1974). 206 S. V. Chernichenko, Lichnost' i mezhdunarodnoe pravo (Moscow: ...
Author: Lauri Mälksoo
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780191034695
Category: Law
Page: 290
View: 299
This book addresses a simple question: how do Russians understand international law? Is it the same understanding as in the West or is it in some ways different and if so, why? It answers these questions by drawing on from three different yet closely interconnected perspectives: history, theory, and recent state practice. The work uses comparative international law as starting point and argues that in order to understand post-Soviet Russia's state and scholarly approaches to international law, one should take into account the history of ideas in Russia. To an extent, Russian understandings of international law differ from what is considered the mainstream in the West. One specific feature of this book is that it goes inside the language of international law as it is spoken and discussed in post-Soviet Russia, especially the scholarly literature in the Russian language, and relates this literature to the history of international law as discipline in Russia. Recent state practice such as the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russia's record in the UN Security Council, the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, prominent cases in investor-state arbitration, and the creation of the Eurasian Economic Union are laid out and discussed in the context of increasingly popular 'civilizational' ideas, the claim that Russia is a unique civilization and therefore not part of the West. The implications of this claim for the future of international law, its universality, and regionalism are discussed.
81 Basically , the more he believed in the possibility of realizing utopia , the more
he was convinced that the ruling class opposed it and vice versa . This class was
doing its best to hinder realization of a utopia that would eliminate it . But this ...
For countless readers the message of Origins, which targets an evil utopian
ideology, repealed as it is by Eichmann in Jerusalem, retains its ... is not simply a
psychological rejoinder, but a political reply to the political project of realizing utopia.
Author: Russell Jacoby
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231502979
Category: Philosophy
Page: 240
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"The choice we have is not between reasonable proposals and an unreasonable utopianism. Utopian thinking does not undermine or discount real reforms. Indeed, it is almost the opposite: practical reforms depend on utopian dreaming."--Russell Jacoby, Picture Imperfect Utopianism suffers from an image problem: A recent exhibition on utopias in Paris and New York included photographs of Hitler's Mein Kampf and a Nazi concentration camp. Many observers judge utopians and their sympathizers as foolhardy dreamers at best and murderous totalitarians at worst. However, as noted social critic and historian Russell Jacoby argues in this salient, polemical, and innovative work, not only has utopianism been unfairly characterized, a return to an iconoclastic utopian spirit is vital for today's society. Shaped by the works of Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Gustav Landauer, and other predominantly Jewish thinkers, iconoclastic utopianism revives society's dormant political imagination and offers hope for a better future. Writing against the grain of history, Jacoby reexamines the anti-utopian mindset and identifies how utopian thought came to be regarded with such suspicion. He challenges standard readings of such anti-utopian classics as 1984 and Brave New World and offers stinging critiques of the influential liberal and anti-utopian theorists Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, and Karl Popper. He argues that these thinkers mistakenly equate utopianism with totalitarianism. The reputation of utopian thought has also suffered from the failures of, what Jacoby terms, the blueprint utopian tradition and its oppressive emphasis on detailing all aspects of society and providing fantastic images of the future. In contrast, the iconoclastic utopians, like those who follow God's prohibition against graven images, resist both the blueprinters' obsession with detail and the modern seduction of images. Jacoby suggests that by learning from the hopeful spirit of iconoclastic utopians and their willingness to accept new possibilities for society, we open ourselves to new and more imaginative ideas of the future.
... lately of the production of the new opera Utopia , Limited , ” to rebuke more in
sorrow than in anger ” certain enthusiasts who seem to think that they have
discovered short cuts to social salvationeasy and rapid methods for realizing Utopia .
In the tiniest village there is space enough to realize their plans. In this way it was
possible to think of realizing Utopia tentatively in small instalments. Owen
founded the New Harmony community in Indiana. Cabet founded a small Icaria in
...
... the easy and rapid methods for realizing Utopia . Perhaps the well - known
reporter in the American Senate , would find journalistic sermon was needed ,
though there is so much it easy to master quickly any study for which he might
room for ...
Three steps have to be taken on the road from Utopia—in the positive sense—to
legal positivism.1 First of all, candidates for human rights must be identified.
Those who ... 1 See A Cassese, 'Introduction' in A Cassese (ed), Realizing Utopia
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Author: Christian Tomuschat
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199683734
Category: Law
Page: 464
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This third edition of Human Rights: Between Idealism and Realism presents human rights in action, focusing on their effectiveness as legal tools designed to benefit human beings. By combining conceptual analysis with an emphasis on procedures and mechanisms of implementation, this volume provides a multidimensional overview of human rights. After examining briefly the history of human rights, the author analyses the intellectual framework that forms the basis of their legitimacy. In particular, he covers the concept of universality and the widely used model that classifies human rights into clusters of different 'generations'. In this edition, the author brings together the fundamental aspects of human rights law, addressing human dignity as the ethical foundation of human rights, the principle of equality and non-discrimination as the essence of any culture of human rights, the protections against racial discrimination and discrimination against women, and assesses the individual as a subject of international law. The volume then moves on to assess the activities of the political institutions of the United Nations, the expert bodies established by the relevant treaties, and the international tribunals specifically entrusted at the regional level with protecting human rights. This edition also includes specific analysis of the actions mandated by the UN Security Council against Libya in 2011. It also includes greater coverage of the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. The author explains how and why the classical array of politically inspired informal devices has been enriched by the addition of international criminal procedures and by endeavors to introduce civil suits against alleged individual violators of human rights. Finally, the volume is rounded off by a consideration of the importance of humanitarian law as an instrument for the protection of human life and dignity and an exploration of the future of human rights.
REALIZING THE POSSIBLE Our choice of an end-in-view organizes our
experience, mediating between what is and what might be. Such activity of
choice is what Dewey calls the capacity of mind. Mind is an inherent tendency to
organize and ...
Author: Erin McKenna
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 074251319X
Category: Philosophy
Page: 179
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Are utopian visions viable in the 21st century? Utopia has been equated, for many, with totalitarianism. Such visions are not acceptable. The loss of utopian visions altogether is also unacceptable. This book argues that American Pragmatism and Feminist theory can combine to provide a process model of utopia that pushes to build a flexible future that helps us deal with change, conflict, and diversity without resorting to fixed ends.
Author: Herbert W. Simons Michael BilligPublish On: 1994-09-06
'A realized utopia is a paradoxical idea', writes Jean Baudrillard (1988: 79),
suggesting that utopia has been achieved in the United States. The paradox is
that social criticism is simultaneously implied and denied by the idea of a realized
...
Author: Herbert W. Simons Michael Billig
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1446222721
Category:
Page: 272
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This interdisciplinary book addresses the key questions posed by the postmodernist challenge: Is it possible to reflect and criticize in an age when every claim to truth is placed under suspicion? Are social critics contaminated by the same ideological distortions they identify in society? The text reviews different responses to such dilemmas and thus examines ways to reconstruct social theory and critique following the postmodern attack on the traditional foundations of knowledge. Whether looking at political critique and praxis, feminist issues, ideology or teaching practices, the contributions are united by the need to ground a new theoretical and political position in the absence of the foundational certainties once provided by positivism and empiricism.
That very faith in Progress , however , would seem to be embodied in London ' s
reliance on a scientific innovation as Goliah ' s means of realizing utopia ; but like
most of the “ science ” of science fiction , Energon is really magic - manqué , a ...
Author: Kenneth M. Roemer
Publisher: Burt Franklin
ISBN: UOM:39015004195205
Category: Fiction
Page: 410
View: 774
Essays analyze the utopian worlds described in fiction by American authors such as B.F. Skinner, Mark Twain, and Kurt Vonnegut
Realizing Utopia: The Future of International Law (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2012), 61, and particularly 66–70. As Cassese points out in the same
publication, 'most nonState actors are only tangentially restrained by international
rules' ...
Author: Hugh Thirlway
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780191508608
Category: Law
Page: 304
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In recent years States have made more and more extensive use of the International Court of Justice for the judicial settlement of disputes. Despite being declared by the Courts Statute to have no binding force for States other than the parties to the case, its decisions have come to constitute a body of jurisprudence that is frequently invoked in other disputes, in international negotiation, and in academic writing. This jurisprudence, covering a wide range of aspects of international law, is the subject of considerable ongoing academic examination; it needs however to be seen against the background, and in the light, of the Courts structure, jurisdiction and operation, and the principles applied in these domains. The purpose of this book is thus to provide an accessible and comprehensive study of this aspect of the Court, and in particular of its procedure, written by a scholar who has had unique opportunities of close observation of the Court in action. This distillation of direct experience and expertise makes it essential reading for all those who study, teach or practise international law.
Unlike in Mongolia, Russia and some Eastern European countries, the
mainstream of the CCP had abandoned Marxism even in the late Mao era,
focusing on holding power rather than realizing utopia. Those yearning for
communism will not ...
Author: Bruce Gilley
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231502153
Category: Political Science
Page: 320
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The end of communist rule in China will be one of the most momentous events of the twenty-first century, sounding the death knell for the Marxist-Leninist experiment and changing the lives of a fifth of humanity. This book provides a likely blow-by-blow account of how the Chinese Communist Party will be removed from power and how a new democracy will be born. In more than half a century of rule, the Chinese Communist Party has turned a poor and benighted China into a moderately well-off and increasingly influential nation. Yet the Party has failed to keep pace with change since stepping aside from daily life in the late-1970s. After nearly a hundred years of frustrating attempts to create a workable political system following the overthrow of the last dynasty, the prospects for democracy in China are better than ever, according to Bruce Gilley. Gilley predicts an elite-led transformation rather than a popular-led overthrow. He profiles the key actors and looks at the response of excluded elites, such as the military, as well as interested parties such as Taiwan and Tibet. He explains how democracy in China will be very "Chinese," even as it will also embody fundamental universal liberal features. He deals with competing interests—regional, sectoral, and class—of China's economy and society under democracy, addressing the pressing concerns of world business. Finally he considers the implications for Asia as well as for the United States. The end of communist rule in China will be one of the most momentous events of the twenty-first century, sounding the death knell for the Marxist-Leninist experiment and changing the lives of a fifth of humanity. This book provides a likely blow-by-blow account of how the Chinese Communist Party will be removed from power and how a new democracy will be born. In more than half a century of rule, the Chinese Communist Party has turned a poor and benighted China into a moderately well-off and increasingly influential nation. Yet the Party has failed to keep pace with change since stepping aside from daily life in the late-1970s. After nearly a hundred years of frustrating attempts to create a workable political system following the overthrow of the last dynasty, the prospects for democracy in China are better than ever, according to Bruce Gilley. Gilley predicts an elite-led transformation rather than a popular-led overthrow. He profiles the key actors and looks at the response of excluded elites, such as the military, as well as interested parties such as Taiwan and Tibet. He explains how democracy in China will be very "Chinese," even as it will also embody fundamental universal liberal features. He deals with competing interests—regional, sectoral, and class—of China's economy and society under democracy, addressing the pressing concerns of world business. Finally he considers the implications for Asia as well as for the United States.
One political scientist observed in 1955 that the generations before the mid-
1940s 'dreamed of realizing Utopia; this generation hopes to escape disaster,
whether in the form of economic collapse or atomic destruction' (Peardon 1955:
488).
Author: Rodney Barker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781134910663
Category: Political Science
Page: 368
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The rise of the New Right and the collapse of state communism in 1989 has fundamentally changed political thinking in the late twentieth century. Rodney Barker has revised and extended his classic text - Political Ideas in Modern Britain - in the light of these changes. His accessible account of political thinking in Britain since the 1880s now includes detailed analysis of: * the demise of traditional conservatism and socialism * the rise and decline of the New Right * the growth of feminism, liberalism and pluralism Political Ideas in Modern Britain charts the changing intellectual landscape of political thinking, illustrating how contemporary political thought is both rooted in tradition and a radical transformation of it. Whether the future is liberal, communitarian, pluralist, or simply uncertain, this is an essential guide for students of British politics. Rodney Barker is Senior Lecturer in Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Author: Tammany Hall (Political organization)Publish On: 1893
This party was the outcome of a strong craving on the part of agriculturists in
1885 to receive a larger representation in the Legislature and aid them by
opportunity in realizing Utopia . After some modifying influences from many
sympathetic ...
In The Blithedale RomanceHawthorne thus repeats the pessimism he evinced in“
Earths Holocaust” (1844), a story equally skeptical about the prospects of realizing utopia. Short of divine intervention, Hawthorne suggests, the selfis ...
Author: Andrew Loman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781135494117
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 184
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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
