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Uniform Title: Looking further forward. German
Title:
Ein Blick in die Zukunft
Eine Antwort auf: Ein Rückblick von Edward Bellamy
Note: Reading ease score: 68.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
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Produced by Jana Srna, Norbert H. Langkau, Norbert Müller
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Summary: "Ein Blick in die Zukunft" by Richard Michaelis is a critical analysis written in the late 19th century. This work serves as a response to Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward," and it explores the implications of communism as proposed by Bellamy, arguing against the effectiveness and moral grounding of such a system. Michaelis presents a cautionary view of proposed societal reforms, emphasizing the potential pitfalls of enforced equality and the loss of personal freedoms. The opening of the book introduces the narrator, Julian West, who recounts his life and how he fell into a deep sleep that lasted over a century. When he awakens in the year 2000, he learns about the dramatic changes in society, including the abolition of money and the establishment of a "workers' army" regulated by the government. As West adjusts to this new world, he grapples with the implications of these societal changes and the nature of individual liberty, contrasting them with the values of his own time. Through the character of Dr. Leete, he gets a glimpse of the utopian society that Bellamy advocates, but Michaelis uses West's experiences to question the validity and sustainability of such a system, hinting at deeper societal issues lurking beneath the surface of this supposedly ideal society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Michaelis, Richard, 1839-1909
EBook No.: 44598
Published: Jan 5, 2014
Downloads: 41
Language: German
Subject: Utopias -- Fiction
Subject: Utopian fiction
Subject: Bellamy, Edward, 1850-1898. Looking backward
Subject: Utopias in literature
LoCC: Social sciences: Socialism, Communism, Anarchism
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
Uniform Title: Looking further forward. German
Title:
Ein Blick in die Zukunft
Eine Antwort auf: Ein Rückblick von Edward Bellamy
Note: Reading ease score: 68.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Credits:
Produced by Jana Srna, Norbert H. Langkau, Norbert Müller
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
http:
//www.pgdp.net
Summary: "Ein Blick in die Zukunft" by Richard Michaelis is a critical analysis written in the late 19th century. This work serves as a response to Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward," and it explores the implications of communism as proposed by Bellamy, arguing against the effectiveness and moral grounding of such a system. Michaelis presents a cautionary view of proposed societal reforms, emphasizing the potential pitfalls of enforced equality and the loss of personal freedoms. The opening of the book introduces the narrator, Julian West, who recounts his life and how he fell into a deep sleep that lasted over a century. When he awakens in the year 2000, he learns about the dramatic changes in society, including the abolition of money and the establishment of a "workers' army" regulated by the government. As West adjusts to this new world, he grapples with the implications of these societal changes and the nature of individual liberty, contrasting them with the values of his own time. Through the character of Dr. Leete, he gets a glimpse of the utopian society that Bellamy advocates, but Michaelis uses West's experiences to question the validity and sustainability of such a system, hinting at deeper societal issues lurking beneath the surface of this supposedly ideal society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Michaelis, Richard, 1839-1909
EBook No.: 44598
Published: Jan 5, 2014
Downloads: 41
Language: German
Subject: Utopias -- Fiction
Subject: Utopian fiction
Subject: Bellamy, Edward, 1850-1898. Looking backward
Subject: Utopias in literature
LoCC: Social sciences: Socialism, Communism, Anarchism
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.