Ein Blick in die Zukunft by Richard Michaelis

Read now or download (free!)

Choose how to read this book Url Size
Read online (web) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44598.html.images 259 kB
EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44598.epub3.images 211 kB
EPUB (older E-readers) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44598.epub.images 213 kB
EPUB (no images, older E-readers) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44598.epub.noimages 157 kB
Kindle https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44598.kf8.images 300 kB
older Kindles https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44598.kindle.images 274 kB
Plain Text UTF-8 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44598.txt.utf-8 229 kB
Download HTML (zip) https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/44598/pg44598-h.zip 214 kB
There may be more files related to this item.

About this eBook

Author Michaelis, Richard, 1839-1909
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.)
Language German
LoC Class HX: Social sciences: Socialism, Communism, Anarchism
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Utopias -- Fiction
Subject Utopian fiction
Subject Bellamy, Edward, 1850-1898. Looking backward
Subject Utopias in literature
Category Text
EBook-No. 44598
Release Date
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
Downloads 35 downloads in the last 30 days.
Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free!