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Author: Michael J. Griffin Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9783039109135 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 440
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A series of essays by an international and trans-disciplinary group of contributors which explores the nature and extent of the utopian impulse. Working across a range of historical periods and cultures, the book investigates key aspects of utopian theory, texts, and socio-political practices.
Author: Michael J. Griffin Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9783039109135 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 440
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A series of essays by an international and trans-disciplinary group of contributors which explores the nature and extent of the utopian impulse. Working across a range of historical periods and cultures, the book investigates key aspects of utopian theory, texts, and socio-political practices.
Author: K. Beauchesne Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230339611 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 346
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An exploration of the concept of utopia in Latin America from the earliest accounts of the New World to current cultural production, the carefully selected essays in this volume represent the latest research on the topic by some of the most important Latin Americanists working in North American academia today.
Author: Tom Moylan Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350133353 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 431
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A dream of a better world is a powerful human force that inspires activists, artists, and citizens alike. In this book Tom Moylan – one of the pioneering scholars of contemporary utopian studies – explores the utopian process in its individual and collective trajectory from dream to realization. Drawing on theorists such as Fredric Jameson, Donna Haraway and Alain Badiou and science fiction writers such as Kim Stanley Robinson and China Miéville, Becoming Utopian develops its argument for sociopolitical action through studies that range from liberation theology, ecological activism, and radical pedagogy to the radical movements of 1968. Throughout, Moylan speaks to the urgent need to confront and transform the global environmental, economic, political and cultural crises of our time.
Author: Michael D. Gordin Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400834953 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 302
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The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. Utopia/Dystopia offers a fresh approach to these ideas. Rather than locate utopias in grandiose programs of future totality, the book treats these concepts as historically grounded categories and examines how individuals and groups throughout time have interpreted utopian visions in their daily present, with an eye toward the future. From colonial and postcolonial Africa to pre-Marxist and Stalinist Eastern Europe, from the social life of fossil fuels to dreams of nuclear power, and from everyday politics in contemporary India to imagined architectures of postwar Britain, this interdisciplinary collection provides new understandings of the utopian/dystopian experience. The essays look at such issues as imaginary utopian perspectives leading to the 1856-57 Xhosa Cattle Killing in South Africa, the functioning racist utopia behind the Rhodesian independence movement, the utopia of the peaceful atom and its global dissemination in the mid-1950s, the possibilities for an everyday utopia in modern cities, and how the Stalinist purges of the 1930s served as an extension of the utopian/dystopian relationship. The contributors are Dipesh Chakrabarty, Igal Halfin, Fredric Jameson, John Krige, Timothy Mitchell, Aditya Nigam, David Pinder, Marci Shore, Jennifer Wenzel, and Luise White.
Author: Carmelo C. Rafalà Publisher: ISBN: Category : Utopias Languages : it Pages : 466
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The utopian impulse has been behind some of the greatest human engineered catastrophes of the 20th century. The framework for constructing the utopian impulse has a foundation that goes back much further, to man's earliest beliefs in paradise. Belief in utopia reflects a need for utopia as there is a biological component to the utopian impulse. People have a natural need for order and an unwillingness to accept randomness. Under certain conditions, external forces beyond an individual's or a people's control, or which appear to be beyond control, will stimulate biological responses that increase vulnerability to utopian belief as well as inspire the actions necessary to bring about the existence of a utopia. This is the utopian impulse. In the works of Umberto Eco, both fiction and non-fiction, man's vulnerability to the cognitive processes that inspire utopian belief is a common theme. The reaction to social, economic, cultural, and political forces, which seem to have a mind of their own, increase a way of thinking that increases susceptibility to utopian impulses. Fear of the Other; belief in conspiracies; apophenia (seeing connections and patterns between otherwise random events); millenarianism; dietrologia (literally behindology); belief in unseen agents, whether human or divine, are all found within Eco's work. The very nature of human belief is explored in such a way as to bring into question not only belief itself but what is accepted as truth. The consequences of the utopian impulse are, as Eco illustrates, tragic. It is an attempt to impose an irrationally derived belief upon the natural world. This leads to a policy of the ends justifies the means. Eco, and history, show us that the means are the end.
Author: S. D. Chrostowska Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231544316 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 403
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Utopia has long been banished from political theory, framed as an impossible—and possibly dangerous—political ideal, a flawed social blueprint, or a thought experiment without any practical import. Even the "realistic utopias" of liberal theory strike many as wishful thinking. Can politics think utopia otherwise? Can utopian thinking contribute to the renewal of politics? In Political Uses of Utopia, an international cast of leading and emerging theorists agree that the uses of utopia for politics are multiple and nuanced and lie somewhere between—or, better yet, beyond—the mainstream caution against it and the conviction that another, better world ought to be possible. Representing a range of perspectives on the grand tradition of Western utopianism, which extends back half a millennium and perhaps as far as Plato, these essays are united in their interest in the relevance of utopianism to specific historical and contemporary political contexts. Featuring contributions from Miguel Abensour, Étienne Balibar, Raymond Geuss, and Jacques Rancière, among others, Political Uses of Utopia reopens the question of whether and how utopianism can inform political thinking and action today.
Author: Tom Moylan Publisher: ISBN: 9781350133365 Category : Utopias Languages : en Pages : 300
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"A dream of a better world is a powerful human force that inspires political activists and science fiction writers alike. In this book Tom Moylan - one of the pioneering scholars of contemporary utopian studies - explores the theory, the practice and the urgency of the utopian impulse. From the theoretical writings of Frederic Jameson, Donna Haraway and Alain Badiou to science fiction works by Kim Stanley Robinson and China Mieville, from Latin American liberation theology to ecological activism and the radical movements of 1968, Hunger and Hope explores the many manifestations of utopian thought. Along the way, Moylan reveals the ways in which humans can confront and transform the global environmental, economic, political and cultural crises that beset us today"--
Author: R. Levitas Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137314257 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 443
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Utopia should be understood as a method rather than a goal. This book rehabilitates utopia as a repressed dimension of the sociological and in the process produces the Imaginary Reconstitution of Society, a provisional, reflexive and dialogic method for exploring alternative possible futures.
Author: Michael J. Griffin
Author: Michael J. Griffin
Author: K. Beauchesne
Author: Tom Moylan
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Author: Michael D. Gordin
Author: Tom Moylan
Author: Carmelo C. Rafalà
Author: S. D. Chrostowska
Author: Tom Moylan
Author: R. Levitas