Utopian Thinking in Law, Politics, Architecture and Technology

Contents:

PART I UTOPIA AND THE LAW: SKETCHES FOR
A NEW SOCIETY
1 Introduction: A return to utopia 2
Bart van Klink, Marta Soniewicka and Leon van den Broeke
2 Finding hope in hopeless times 19
Lynne Copson
3 The rule of law: Between ideology and utopia 38
Bart van Klink
4 Legislative hope and utopia 59
Carinne Elion-Valter
5 A secular form of grace: A place for utopia in law 76
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 96
Marta Soniewicka
7 The utopian ideals of the political order of the European
Union: Is a European republic possible? 116
Jan Willem Sap
8 'The coming community': Agamben's vision of messianic politics 134
Oliver W. Lembcke
9 The allure of utopia: Klaas Schilder's stress on the
relevance of hic et nunc 150
George Harinck
10 The Islamic state 167
Maurits Berger

PART III UTOPIA IN ARCHITECTURE AND
TECHNOLOGY: THE QUEST FOR PERFECTION
11 An ideal city vs 21st-century pragmatism 187
Ernestyna Szpakowska-Loranc
12 Planning utopia 207
Danielle Chevalier and Yannis Tzaninis
13 Technological utopias: Promises of the unlimited 226
Marc J. de Vries
14 A better way of being? Human rights, transhumanism and
'the utopian standpoint of man' 245
Britta van Beers
15 The posthuman: Around the vanishing point of utopia 266
Anna Bugajska
16 Being an agent in a robot and artificial intelligence age:
Potentiality or dystopia? 284
Zeynep Ispir and Su?kru? Keles

Index

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• Jurisprudência e filosofia do direito
• Direito e sociedade
• Teoria e ciência política

Utopia; hope; ideology; social change; imagination; governance; law and society