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- W827093077 abstract "The continuing argument between Utopian writers who prefigure the Millennium and the anti-utopian writers who prophesy the approach of Armageddon is generally assumed to be a struggle between wide-eyed optimism and misanthropic pessimism. But the profoundest thinkers in each camp sometimes find, after a prolonged engagement with their dialogic opposites, that their tents are pitched on common ground that a Hegelian synthesis has occurred wherein the seemingly irreconcilable positions have merged into a guarded but life-affirming optimism. One such reconciliation can be found in the dramatic dialogue between Bernard Shaw, representing the Utopians, and Karel Capek (18901938), a Czech anti-utopian writer with Luddite tendencies and conservative religious views who respected Shaw's work but disagreed with some of its deepest philosophical underpinnings. They began working out their different visions of humanity's future independently, both weighing the unprecedented destructive ferocity of World War I against the great promise of the early twentieth century's technological advances and exploring humanity's prospects in a utopian-dystopian format. Both also employed their own variations on biblical themes Creation, Armageddon, and the achievement of the Millennium to illustrate their different conclusions. Eventually, however, they were drawn into a dialogue that focused on a question central to Utopian and anti-utopian discourse: Should humanity strive for a secular millennium, struggling to re-create man and society into the image suggested by our brightest" @default.
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- W827093077 title "Shaw for the Utopians, Capek for the Anti-Utopians" @default.
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