Das Ende von Ideologie und Utopie?
Das Ende von Ideologie und Utopie? (in German). Nordhausen: Verlag Traugott Bautz, 2014. 277 p.
ISBN 9783883098838
Translation of L. Donskis book „The End of Ideology and Utopia? Moral Imagination and Cultural Criticism in the Twentieth Century“ (New York: Peter Lang, 2000) into German. Are ideology and utopia exhausted and dead on the threshold of the twenty-first century? According to Leonidas Donskis, they survive in the modern social sciences and humanities as well as in various critiques of society and culture, as the inner spring of the cultural and moral imaginations. In tracing what he terms the modern moral imagination, Donskis works out a theory of tolerance, dialogue, human intersubjectivity, the discovery and demonization of the Other, and ideology and utopia as a framework for social and cultural criticism. In portraying four major critics of culture of the twentieth century (Vytautas Kavolis, Ernest Gellner, Louis Dumont, and Lewis Mumford), This book reveals four modes of being of the contemporary critique of culture. Leonidas Donskis shows how modern critiques of culture originate in political philosophy, philosophy of culture, sociology, and the comparative study of civilizations.
