Ein Blick in die Zukunft : Eine Antwort auf: Ein Rückblick von Edward Bellamy

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Michaelis, Richard, 1839-1909

Standardized Title:

Looking further forward. German

Language:

German

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

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.)

Credits:

Produced by Jana Srna, Norbert H. Langkau, Norbert Müller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Notes:

Reading ease score: 68.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.

Release date is 2014-01-05