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Existential utopia : new perspectives on utopian thought /

Radical political thought of the 20th century was dominated by utopia, but the failure of communism in Eastern Europe and its disavowal in China has brought on the need for a new model of utopian thought. This book thus seeks to redefine the concept of utopia and bring it to bear on today's pol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Marder, Michael, 1980-, Vieira, Patricia I., 1977-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY ; London : Continuum International Publishing, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; INTRODUCTION; PART I Utopia Unbound; CHAPTER 1 In Place of Utopia; CHAPTER 2 Utopia, Counter- Utopia, Irony; CHAPTER 3 From Modern Utopias toContemporary Uchronia; CHAPTER 4 Existential Utopia: Of the World, the Possible, the Finite; CHAPTER 5 Still / Encore; CHAPTER 6 The Theater of Utopia: Deleuze on Acting and Politics; PART II Putting Utopia to Work; CHAPTER 7 Ernst Bloch, Utopia, and Ideology Critique; CHAPTER 8 Secularism and Post- Secularism in Roberto Unger and Ernst Bloch: Toward a Utopian Ontology.
  • CHAPTER 9 At the End of Utopia-- IndifferenceCHAPTER 10 History, Politics, and Utopia: Toward a Synthesis of Social Theory and Practice; CHAPTER 11 A Practical Utopia for the Twenty- First Centur; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors.