Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West

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Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West is a critical theoretical study by Susan Buck-Morss that examines the rise and collapse of 20th-century mass utopian projects in both capitalist and socialist societies.

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instanceOf book
critical theory study
academicDiscipline comparative politics
cultural studies
history of ideas
political philosophy
author Susan Buck-Morss NERFINISHED
compares capitalist societies
socialist societies
concerns end of the Cold War
late capitalism
post-socialist transition
examines ideology
mass culture
political symbolism
state power
technology and modernity
urban space
visual culture
focusesOn collapse of mass utopian projects
rise of mass utopian projects
genre critical theory
intellectual history
political theory
hasPerspective comparative East–West analysis
language English
mainSubject 20th century history
Cold War NERFINISHED
aesthetics
capitalism
mass utopian projects
modernity
political imagination
socialism
utopia
notableFor analysis of mass utopia in both capitalist and socialist contexts
integration of visual and political analysis
reinterpretation of Cold War ideological divisions
relatedWork The Dialectics of Seeing NERFINISHED
setInPeriod 20th century
theoreticalApproach Marxist theory
Walter Benjamin scholarship
critical theory

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