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W. Warren Wagar

Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Yale University
European intellectual history, alternative futures

Office: LT 809  
Phone: (607) 777-4210 E-mail: wwagar@binghamton.edu

 

W. Warren Wagar's major scholarly interests are modern European intellectual and cultural history, the study of alternative global futures, and the theory and practice of world history. He is also a published author of science fiction, a devotee of modern and postmodern classical music, and a champion of the work and thought of H.G. Wells.

Recent or current undergraduate courses:

  • History of Ireland
  • History of the Future
  • Alternative Futures
  • War: Past and Future

Recent or current graduate courses:

  • Paradigms of World History*

*Courses with an asterisk are also open to undergraduates.

Significant Publications

Books:

    • Memoirs of the Future. Binghamton: Global Publications, 2001.
    • The Next Three Futures: Paradigms of Things to Come. (Paperbound) New York: Praeger, 1991, and London: Adamantine Press, 1992; and (clothbound) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1991.
    • A Short History of the Future. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989; (in Spanish); Breve Historia Del Futuro, Madrid, Catedra, 1991; Second Edition, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1992; London: Adamantine Press, 1993; and (in Japanese) Tokyo: Futami Shobo, 1995; Third Edition, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1999.
    • Terminal Visions: The Literature of Last Things. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.
    • World Views: A Study in Comparative History. Hinsdale, Ill.: Dryden Press; and New York: Holt Rinehart, 1977.
    • Books in World History: A Guide for Teachers and Students. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1972.
    • Good Tidings: The Belief in Progress from Darwin to Marcuse. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1972.
    • Building the City of Man: Outlines of a World Civilization. New York: Richard Grossman, 1971; reprinted by W.H. Freeman (San Francisco), 1972.
    • The City of Man: Prophecies of a World Civilization in Twentieth- Century Thought. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963; reprinted by Penguin Books (Baltimore), 1967.
    • H.G. Wells and the World State. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961; reprinted by Books for Libraries Press, 1971.

Books Edited:

    • The Open Conspiracy: H.G. Wells on World Revolution. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2001.
    • The Secular Mind: Transformations of Faith in Modern Europe. New York: Homes & Meier, 1982.
    • History and the Idea of Mankind. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1971.
    • The Idea of Progress Since the Renaissance. New York: Wiley, 1969.
    • Science, Faith, and Man: European Thought Since 1914. (paperbound) New York: Harper & Row, 1968; (clothbound) New York: Walker, 1968; and London: Macmillan, 1968.
    • European Intellectual History Since Darwin and Marx. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.
    • H.G. Wells: Journalism and Prophecy, 1893-1946. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964; London: The Bodley Head, 1966.

Selected Recent Articles:

    • "H.G. Wells and the Futurist Endeavour," The Wellsian, 24 (2001), 21-30.
    • "The Road to Utopia: H.G. Wells's Open Conspiracy," The Wellsian, 23 (2000), 14-24.
    • "The Millennium as Utopia," Utopian Studies, 11:2 (2000), 214-218.
    • "The Next Three Futures," in Yorick Blumenfeld, ed., Scanning the Future: 20 Eminent Thinkers on the World of Tomorrow, London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1999, 120-128.
    • "Letters from Our Father," Science-Fiction Studies, 25 (November 1998), 526-533.
    • "Past and Future," American Behavioral Scientist, 42 (November/December 1998), 365-371.
    • "Socialism, Nationalism, and Ecocide," Review: A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center, 19 (Summer 1996), 319-333.