{"id":92,"date":"2010-07-21T21:25:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T01:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teachingutopia.wordpress.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2012-06-08T16:25:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T20:25:58","slug":"special-topics-in-political-science-utopia-and-dystopia-mark-s-jendrysik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/special-topics-in-political-science-utopia-and-dystopia-mark-s-jendrysik\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Topics in Political Science: Utopia and Dystopia (Mark S. Jendrysik)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>General overview: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This course provides an introduction to utopian and anti-utopian ideas in political theory.\u00a0 Questions to be addressed include: the political causes and purpose of utopia and anti-utopia, the position of race, gender, religion and technology in utopian and anti-utopian thought, utopian ideals in action, and the possibilities for utopia in the post-modern world.\u00a0 Seekers after utopia ask many questions. What would the perfect society look like?\u00a0 How should relations among men and women, rich and poor, citizen and alien be organized for the benefit of all?\u00a0 What kind of political system would guarantee peace, prosperity and plenty for all people?\u00a0 In what kind of society would the individual find fulfillment?\u00a0\u00a0 How can we harness technology for the<br \/>\ngood of all humanity?\u00a0 In this course we will examine and judge the answers provided across the two-thousand (and more) year history of utopian political thought.\u00a0 We will also consider efforts to actualize utopia in \u201cintentional communities.\u201d\u00a0 We will also consider how popular culture in all its many forms reflects the utopian ideal. We will examine how some have recently challenged the utopian idea.\u00a0 \u201cDystopian\u201d writers have produced a new kind of political literature which examines the dangerous possibilities inherent in the utopian project. Finally will we consider variants of the utopian ideal such as millennialism and \u201cgolden ages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/files\/2010\/04\/mark-jendrysik-syllabus-special-topics-in-political-science-utopia-and-dystopia.pdf\">Click here<\/a> for the full syllabus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General overview: This course provides an introduction to utopian and anti-utopian ideas in political theory.\u00a0 Questions to be addressed include: the political causes and purpose of utopia and anti-utopia, the position of race, gender, religion and technology in utopian and anti-utopian thought, utopian ideals in action, and the possibilities for utopia in the post-modern world.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syllabi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3lS3Y-1u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utopian-studies.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}