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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.
Contents
Biographical Information for Contributors
Introduction: The Value of Cultivating Longing in a Secularized World -Daniel Boscaljon
Part 1: Relating Hope and Utopia
1 Utopia and Narrative: Theology between the Boundaries of Overhumanization and Hypertheism -Verna Ehret
2 Hope, Hatred, and the Ambiguities of Utopic Longing -Diana Fritz Cates
3 What Means Utopia to Us? Reconsidering More's Message -Marybeth Baggett
4 Desiring Utopian Subjects: Collectivity and Its Discontents -Holly White
Part 2: Historical and Literary Utopian Visions
5 John Calvin, Geneva, and Godly Patriarchs: Hope and Reality in the Creation of a Christian Utopia -Ezra L. Plank
6 Fruit, Fossils, Footprints: Cathecting Utopia in the Work of Miyazawa Kenji -Melissa Anne-Marie Curley
7 Walter Kerr's Utopia of Re-Creation -Benjamin K. Hunnicutt
8 Reframed Hope: Transcendent Technology and Spiraling Subjectivity in Dystopian Cinema -Everett Hamner
Part 3: The Hope for Atheism as a Religious Utopia
9 Who We Are Is God's Dying: The Real Presence of God's Absence in Bonhoeffer's Prison Poems -Steven Schroeder
10 TechnoTopia: The Convergence of Art and Technology in the Twentieth Century and Beyond -J. Sage Elwell
11 The Coming Community: Agamben, Benjamin, and the Hope for a Materialist-Messianic Redemption of the Present -W. David Hall
12 No-Places for Sacred Communities: Hope and the Failure of Fight Club -Daniel Boscaljon
