Visions of the Future in Germany and America

By: Norbert Finzsch (Editor), Hermann Wellenreuther (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 October 2001

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Predictions about the world have the power to grip whole societies, and shape the actions of many groups whether working in politics, ecology or religion. At the end of epochs and eras humans tend to reflect on the shape of things to come. Most recently, fears about the 'millennium bug' had thousands rushing to stock up on candles and food in the weeks before New Year's Eve. Concerns about the future have been expressed differently throughout history. This book explores the historical context surrounding various debates, decisions and beliefs about the future in recent centuries. Religious, political, literary and ecological visions of the future in America and Germany are addressed comparatively. In particular, scholars from the United States and Germany explore the meaning of eschatological and utopian thoughts pursued during the last three centuries and tackle subjects ranging from science fiction to religious radicalism, utopian social experiments, and visions of race relations. This book delves into the hopes and fears for the future that have shaped the past and will be of interest to comparative historians as well as to historians of Europe and the United States intrigued by the subject of utopias.

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Introduction	p. 1
Transatlantic Millenarianism from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century	p. 23
The Migration of the Pious: Methodists, Pietists, and the Antinomian Character of North American Religious History	p. 25
American Dreams and European Responses, from the 1840s to the 1920s	p. 49
Present Tenses of the Everlasting Life: Pentecostal Visions of the Future	p. 69
Comment on Part One: Visions of the Future and Visions of the Self: God, the Individual, and Subjectivity in Utopian Theology1	p. 89
Comment on Part One: the Failure and Success of Millenarianism in American Religious Culture	p. 99
Visions of the New World Order	p. 108
The Us Quest for a Global Pax Americana: Myths and Realities	p. 109
Beyond Weltpolitik, Self-Containment and Civilian Power: United Germany's Normalizing Ambitions	p. 143
References	p. 221
Comment on Part Two: Foreign Policy Utopias of Great Powers Revisited: a Comparison of Germany and the United States	p. 225
Comment on Part Two: American Diplomacy: the Quest for a Global Pax Americana: Myths and Realities a Reply 1	p. 231
Utopian Communities in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries	p. 250
Social Utopias in Modern America	p. 251
Broken Utopias: Visions of the Social Order in Modern Germany	p. 275
Comment on Part Three: Thoughts on the National Peculiarities of Talking About Utopias	p. 295
Comment on Part Three: Comparative Views on Social Utopias in Germany and the United States	p. 303
The Future Society Envisioned	p. 319
Beyond the Nation? a Grand Category Revisited	p. 321
Future Blues: Race Relations in the United States	p. 349
Volksgemeinschaft in the Third Reich: Concession, Conflict, Consensus	p. 375
We May Be Losing This Generation: Talking About Youth and the Nation's Future During the New Deal Era*	p. 403
Comments on Part Four: Biblical Narratives in German and American National Utopias	p. 431
Comment on Part Four: Utopian Thinking Between Producerism and Consumerism. What Distinguishes the American New Deal from the German Volksgemeinschaft?	p. 445
Science Fiction, Social Construction, and New Realities	p. 469
Different Drafts of a "future Horizon": Weird Science Versus Nick Der Weltraumfahrer	p. 471
Ecology and Epocalypse*	p. 487
Dad, Are You There? Come Back: Gender and the Narrative of Science Fiction	p. 501
Comment on Part Five: Apocalypse How? or the Visions of Future Between Fear and Hope	p. 533
Select Bibliography	p. 541
Index of Names	p. 569
Index of Places	p. 579
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