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

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

Cornils, Ingo

Hardcover

Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, Book 214

Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1640140352
ISBN13: 9781640140356
Publisher: Camden House Inc
Published: Sep 15 2020
Pages: 332
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Shows German Science Fiction's connections with utopian thought, and how it attempts Zukunftsbewältigung: coping with an uncertain but also unwritten future.

Since its beginnings, German Science Fiction (or SF) has engaged with social change and technological progress, often drawing from utopian thought. The writer Kurd La witz challenged the authoritarian Wilhelmine order; later, film director Fritz Lang provided a searing critique of Weimar society. Meanwhile utopian thinkers like Ernst Bloch and Herbert Marcuse insisted on the possibility of hope, even in the face of totalitarianism. During the Cold War, German utopian writing and filmmaking were vital both as a warning and as a creative imagining of possible futures. More recently, as rapid scientific and technological advances have continued, literary and cinematic responses have become increasingly dystopian in outlook, reflecting fears connected with globalization, advances in artificial intelligence and genetic engineering, and persistent challenges like climate change, hunger, migration, and terrorism.

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