2016, ISBN: 9780230361362

Imagining Outer Space makes a captivating advance into the cultural history of outer space and extraterrestrial life in the European imagination. How was outer space conceived and communi… Mehr…

Imagining Outer Space makes a captivating advance into the cultural history of outer space and extraterrestrial life in the European imagination. How was outer space conceived and communicated? What promises of interplanetary expansion and cosmic colonization propelled the project of human spaceflight to the forefront of twentieth-century modernity? In what way has West-European astroculture been affected by the continuous exploration of outer space? Tracing the thriving interest in spatiality to early attempts at exploring imaginary worlds beyond our own, the book analyzes contact points between science and fiction from a transdisciplinary perspective and examine s sites and situations where utopian images and futuristic technologies contributed to the omnipresence of fantasmatic thought. Bringing together state-of-the-art work in this emerging field of historical research, the volume breaks new ground in the historicization of the Space Age. Alexander C.T. Geppert is Associate Professor of History and European Studies and Global Network Associate Professor at New York University Shanghai, as well as NYUs Center for European and Mediterranean Studies in New York City. From 2010 to 2016 he directed the Emmy Noether Research Group The Future in the Stars: European Astroculture and Extraterrestrial Life in the Twentieth Century at Freie Universität Berlin. Imagining Outer Space makes a captivating advance into the cultural history of outer space and extraterrestrial life in the European imagination. How was outer space conceived and communicated? What promises of interplanetary expansion and cosmic colonization propelled the project of human spaceflight to the forefront of twentieth-century modernity? In what way has West-European astroculture been affected by the continuous exploration of outer space? Tracing the thriving interest in spatiality Technik,Wissen|Belletristik,Romane|Geschichte > Sekundärliteratur|Europa|Sonstiges, Palgrave Macmillan<

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2012, ISBN: 9780230361362

European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century, eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), 2012, [PU: Palgrave Macmillan UK], Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012

2012, ISBN: 9780230361362

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2012, ISBN: 9780230361362

European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century, 2012, eBook Download (PDF), eBooks, [PU: Palgrave Macmillan UK]