Risse im Fundament – Die Logik der Veränderung

Utopias can realize mankind's aspiration for a home, as Ernst Bloch programmatically claimed. After all, they are attempts to look beyond the horizon of the existing social order. This search for another, better world, beginning with Thomas More, is addressed in this volume in two essays, “Der Zerfall der alten Welt. Morus oder Machiavelli” and “Freiheit im Nirgendwo. Das linke Ding der Utopie”. They are thematically linked by four papers on the connection between Utopia and revolution in the age of the French Enlightenment.