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A Liberal Order Beyond Earth? Civil Sphere, “The Culture” and the Future of Liberalism

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F20%3A00117697" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/20:00117697 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://sociologica.hse.ru/en/2020-19-4/430489151.html" target="_blank" >https://sociologica.hse.ru/en/2020-19-4/430489151.html</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/1728-192x-2020-4-36-60" target="_blank" >10.17323/1728-192x-2020-4-36-60</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    A Liberal Order Beyond Earth? Civil Sphere, “The Culture” and the Future of Liberalism

  • Original language description

    Starting with George Orwell's liberal problem of meaning, this article investigates liberalism as cultural structure and myth, drawing on the theory of civil sphere by Jeffrey C. Alexander and the science fiction novels of Ian M. Banks. Following Alexander, it is argued that liberal societies are built around a sacred core described by the cultural structures of the civil sphere, which are structures of meaning as well as feeling. Civil discourses and movements in liberal (and not so liberal) societies mobilize powerful symbols of the sacred and profane and are thus able to inspire an almost religious devotion. The article then continues to explore the meaning structure, cultural contradictions and possible future of the liberal order discussing Bank's Culture series. These novels are set in the borderlands of "the Culture", a galactic civilization and liberal utopia. It is precisely this utopian setting, which allows Banks to probe the internal dilemmas of liberalism, for example between pacifism and interventionism, while addressing issues of contemporary relevance, such as the liberal problem of meaning, the al-lure of authoritarianism or the social status of artificial intelligence. With their literary imagination , science fiction writers construct "a myth of the future" (Banks), which may often reflect the myths of their time, but which can also-as in the case of Banks-reflect on those myths, their implications and contradictions. Finally, the fictional possibilities of social order in science fiction can be a valuable source for our imagination as sociologists contemplating the very possibility of social order.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    50400 - Sociology

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2020

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Russian Sociological Review

  • ISSN

    1728-192X

  • e-ISSN

    1728-1938

  • Volume of the periodical

    19

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    4

  • Country of publishing house

    RU - RUSSIAN FEDERATION

  • Number of pages

    25

  • Pages from-to

    36-60

  • UT code for WoS article

    000605028500003

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85100046604