Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 20:45:26 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi-AT-statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: [New book] The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West    


Greetings technology lists,

[Hi, please enjoy this new book *Dreamworld and Catastrophe*, under the
series of PHILOSOPHY AND THE HUMANITIES FROM THE MIT PRESS.-Arun]
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Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 14:23:01 GMT
From: Philosophy and Humanities Editorial <philosophy_humanities-AT-mitpress.mit.edu>
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Dreamworld and Catastrophe
The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West
Susan Buck-Morss
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/BUCAHS00>

The dream of the twentieth century was the construction of mass utopia.
As the century closes, this dream is being left behind; the belief that
industrial modernization can bring about the good society by overcoming
material scarcity for all has been challenged by the disintegration of
European socialism, capitalist restructuring, and ecological constraints.
The larger social vision has given way to private dreams of material
happiness and to political cynicism.

Developing the notion of dreamworld as both a poetic description of a
collective mental state and an analytical concept, Susan Buck-Morss
attempts to come to terms with mass dreamworlds at the moment of their
passing. She shows how dreamworlds became dangerous when their energy was
used by the structures of power as an instrument of force against the
masses. Stressing the similarities between the East and West and using
the end of the Cold War as her point of departure, she examines both
extremes of mass utopia, dreamworld and catastrophe.
7 x 9, 432 pp., 178 illus., 13 color, cloth ISBN 0-262-02464-0

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