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  • Beyond Tomorrow

    German Science Fiction and Utopian Thought in the 20th and 21st Centuries

    by Ingo Cornils ...
    Since its beginnings, German Science Fiction (or SF) has engaged with social change and technological progress, often drawing from utopian thought. The writer Kurd Laßwitz challenged the authoritarian Wilhelmine order; later, filmdirector Fritz Lang provided a searing critique of Weimar society. Meanwhile utopian thinkers like Ernst Bloch and Herbert Marcuse insisted on the possibility of hope, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Writing the Revolution

    The Construction of "1968" in Germany

    by Ingo Cornils ...
    In Germany, the concept of "1968" is enduring and synonymous with the German Student Movement, and is viewed, variously, as a fundamental liberalization, a myth, a second foundation, or an irritation. The movement's aims - radicalre-imagination of the political and economic order and social hierarchy - have been understood as requiring a "long march." While the movement has been judged at best a ... Read more

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  • New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction

    Edited by Lars Schmeink, Ingo Cornils ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction demonstrates the variety and scope of German science fiction (SF) production in literature, television, and cinema. The volume argues that speculative fictions and explorations of the fantastic provide a critical lens for studying the possibilities and limitations of paradigm shifts in society. Lars Schmeink and Ingo Cornils bring together ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Alternative Worlds

    Blue-Sky Thinking since 1900

    Edited by Ricarda Vidal, Ingo Cornils ...
    Series Book 22 - Cultural History and Literary Imagination
    In an attempt to counteract the doom and gloom of the economic crisis and the politicians’ overused dictum that ‘there is no alternative’, this interdisciplinary collection presents a number of alternative worlds that were conceived over the course of the last century. While change at the macro level was the focus of most of the ideological struggles of the twentieth century, the real impetus for ... Read more

    $83.69 USD