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The idea of a better society as associated with the communal idea is investigated from both theoretical perspectives and through contemporary experiences around the world. This idea leaves nobody indifferent. Whatever the hardship that its concretization implies, however, once it does materialize, it cannot, as such avoid new challenges, tensions and unexpected claims. This means, at varying degrees, negations of, and removals from, the “utopian inspiration”. Humans are able to create unprecedented conditions of life under most ambitious inspirations, but are unable to safeguard their achievements from change, alterations and contradictions. In this, however, another aspect of the utopian realizations is that they ultimately leave room for new utopist thinking and enrolment. As far, indeed, the utopian inspiration draws its vitality from potent civilizational codes, its renewal from ashes is as unavoidable as its self-betrayal through materialization. Contributors included: Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Rami Degany, Amitai Etzioni, Maria Fölling-Albers, Yiftah Goldman, Ruth Kark, Yossi Katz, John Lehr, Graham Meltzer, Bill Metcalf, Timothy Miller, Yaacov Oved, Michal Palgi, Donald E. Pitzer, Shulamit Reinharz, Lyman Tower Sargent, György Széll, Menachem Topel, Katherine Trebeck, and Chris Warhurst.
Collective settlements. --- Communal living. --- Utopian socialism. --- Socialism, Utopian --- Socialism --- Communal settlements --- Communes --- Cooperative living --- Collective settlements --- Housing, Cooperative --- Communistic settlements --- Communism --- Cooperation --- Collective farms --- Communal living
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In An Unreal Estate, Lucinda Carspecken takes an in-depth look at Lothlorien, a Southern Indiana nature sanctuary, sustainable camping ground, festival site, collective residence, and experiment in ecological building, stewardship, and organization. Carspecken notes the way fiction and reality intertwine on this piece of land and argues that examples such as Lothlorien have the power to be a force for social change. Lothlorien's organization and social norms are in sharp contrast with its surrounding communities. As a unique enclave within a larger society, it offers to the latter both an i
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Communal living --- Communal settlements --- Communes --- Cooperative living --- Collective settlements --- Housing, Cooperative --- History --- Fels, Thomas Weston. --- United States --- Social conditions --- Fels, Tom
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Central-local government relations --- Collective settlements --- Relations gouvernement central-collectivités locales --- Communautés --- History --- Histoire --- Europe, Western --- Politics and government --- Relations gouvernement central-collectivités locales --- Communautés --- Central-local government relations - Europe, Western - History --- Collective settlements - Europe, Western - History --- Europe, Western - Politics and government
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