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THE PRINCIPLE OF HOPE
CONTENTS
PART FOUR
33A DREAMER ALWAYS WANTS EVEN MORE
34PHYSICAL EXERCISE, TOUT VA BIEN
35STRUGGLE FOR HEALTH, MEDICAL UTOPIAS
A warm bed
Lunatics and fairytales
Medicines and planning
Hesitation and goal in actual bodily rebuilding
Malthus, birth-rate, nourishment
The doctor's care
36FREEDOM AND ORDER, SURVEY OF SOCIAL UTOPIAS
I. Introduction
A frugal meal
The roast pigeons
Lunacy and colportage even here
New Moral Worlds on the horizon
Utopias have their timetable
II. Social Wishful Images of the Past
Solon and the contented medium
Diogenes and the exemplary beggars
Aristippus and the exemplary scroungers
Plato's dream of the Doric state
Hellenistic fairytales of an ideal state, Iamboulos' island of the sun
The Stoics and the international world-state
The Bible and the kingdom of neighbourly love
Augustine's City of God from rebirth
Joachim of Fiore, the third gospel and its kingdom
Thomas More or the utopia of social freedom
Counterpart to More: Campanella's City of the Sun or the utopia of social order
Counterpart to More: Campanella's City of the Sun or the utopia of social order
Socratic inquiry into freedom and order, with regard to ‘Utopia’ and ‘Civitas solis’
Continuation: social utopias and classic Natural Right
Enlightened Natural Right in place of social utopias
Fichte's closed commercial state or production and exchange in accordance with rational law
Federative utopias in the nineteenth century: Owen, Fourier
Federative utopias in the nineteenth century: Owen, Fourier
Centralist utopias in the nineteenth century: Cabet, Saint-Simon
Individual utopians and anarchy: Stirner, Proudhon, Bakunin
Proletarian castle in the air from the Vormärz: Weitling
A conclusion: weakness and status of the rational utopias
III. Projects and Progress Towards Science
Topical remnants: bourgeois group utopias
Beginning, programme of the youth movement
Struggle for the new woman, programme of the women's movement
Old New Land, programme of Zionism
Novels set in the future and full-scale utopias after Marx: Bellamy, William Morris, Carlyle, Henry George
Marxism and concrete anticipation
37WILL AND NATURE, THE TECHNOLOGICAL UTOPIAS
I. Magic Past
Plunged into misery
Fire and new armament
Lunacy and Aladdin's fairytale
‘Professor Mystos’ and invention
Andreae's ‘Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz anno 1459’
Alchemy again: mutatio specierum (transmutation of inorganic species) and its incubator
Unregulated inventions and ‘Propositiones’ in the Baroque period
Bacon's Ars inveniendi; survival of the Lullian art
New Atlantis, the utopian laboratory
II. Non-Euclidean Present and Future, the Problem of Technological Contact
Plans must also be spurred on
Late bourgeois curbing of technology, apart from the military kind
De-oranization of the machine; atomic energy, non-Euclidean technology
De-oranization of the machine; atomic energy, non-Euclidean technology
Subject, raw materials, laws and contact in de-organization
Electron of the human subject, of technology of the will
Co-productivity of a possible natural subject or concrete technology of alliance
Technology without violation; economic crisis and technological accident
Chained giant, veiled sphinx, technological freedom
38BUILDINGS WHICH DEPICT A BETTER WORLD, ARCHITECTURAL UTOPIAS
I. Figures of Ancient Architecture
Glance through the window
Dreams on the Pompeian wall
Festive decorations and Baroque stage sets
Wishful architecture in the fairytale
Wishful architecture in the fairytale
Wishful architecture in painting
The church masons' guilds or architectural utopia in actual construction
Egypt or the crystal of death utopia, Gothic or the tree of life utopia
Further and individual examples of guiding space in ancient architecture
II. Building on Hollow Space
New houses and real clarity
Town plans, ideal towns and real clarity again: permeation of crystal with profusion
39 ELDORADO AND EDEN, THE GEOGRAPHICAL UTOPIAS
The first lights
Inventing and discovering; characteristic of geographical hope
Fairytales again, the Golden Fleece and the Grail
Island of the Phaeacians, the bad Atlantic, location of the earthly paradise
Voyage of St Brendan, the kingdom of Prester John; American, Asiatic paradise
Columbus at the Orinoco delta; dome of the earth
Columbus at the Orinoco delta; dome of the earth
South land and the utopia of Thule
Better abodes on other stars; hic Rhodus
The Copernican connection, Baader's ‘central earth’
Geographical line of extension in sobriety; the fund of the earth, mediated with work
40WISHFUL LANDSCAPE PORTRAYED IN PAINTING, OPERA, LITERATURE
The moved hand
Flower and carpet
Still life composed of human beings
Embarkation for Cythera
Perspective and large horizon in van Eyck, Leonardo, Rembrandt
Perspective and large horizon in van Eyck, Leonardo, Rembrandt
Still life, Cythera and broad perspective in literature: Heinse, Roman de la Rose, Jean Paul
The wishful landscape of perspective in aesthetics; status of the matter of art according to its dimension of depth and hope
Painters of the residual Sunday, Seurat, Cézanne, Gauguin; Giotto's land of legend
Land of legend in literature: as celestial rose in Dante's ‘Paradiso’, as transcendental high mountains in the Faustian heaven
Splendour, Elysium in opera and oratorio
Contact of the interior and the boundless in the spirit of music: Kleist's ideal landscape; Sistine Madonna
41WISHFUL LANDSCAPE AND WISDOM SUB SPECIE AETERNITATIS AND OF PROCESS
The search for proportion
The ‘authentic’ in primary matter and law
Kant and the intelligible kingdom; Plato, Eros and the pyramid of value
Bruno and the infinite work of art; Spinoza and the world as crystal
Augustine and goal-history; Leibniz and the world as process of illumination
The watchful concept or the 'authentic' as a task
Two wishful propositions: teachable virtue, the categorical imperative
The proposition of Anaximander or world which turns into likeness
Lightness in the depths, joyfulness of the phenomenon of light
42 EIGHT-HOUR DAY, WORLD IN PEACE, FREE TIME AND LEISURE
The whip of hunger
From the casemates of the bourgeoisie
All kinds of alleviation through benefaction
Bourgeois pacifism and peace
Technological maturity, state capitalism and state socialism; October Revolution
Delusions of free time: toughening up for business
Delusions of free time: toughening up for business
Residual older forms of free time, spoiled, but not hopeless: hobby, public festival, amphitheatre
The surroundings of free time: utopian Buen Retiro and pastoral
Leisure as imperative, only half explored goal
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