Abstract
Speculative Fiction for the Future of Man and Civilization
Highlights
The notion of speculative fiction has been firmly established in popular culture for many years
While it is very easy to point to the essential features of the poetics of this type of novel, it is much more difficult to point to the cultural paradigm from which both speculative fiction and the need to use this type of poetics stems
The effect of this action is not a symbolic rationalization of the principles organizing the existence of the Living Space, but first of all the creation of a functional model of the whole reality, which in mythical rituals was subject to a specific taming
Summary
The main thesis of the article is the comparison of speculative fiction with the challenges facing modern man. The content of fantasy was supposed to raise questions in people and lead to the problematization of the rational image of the world This model of fantasy becomes important after the Enlightenment, when the belief in the power of reason and technology led to tendencies creating a new type of industrial utopia. Like Colerigde’s myth or imagination, it may lead to the creation of new models of reality, and to testing their consequences in a literary laboratory This is all the more important because the faith in industrial utopias has passed away and the pace of civilization changes and potential threats connected with them is increasing. It can combine imaginative elements with religious symbols, referring to the spiritual condition of contemporary man
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