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Political Uses of Utopia : New Marxist, Anarchist, and Radical Democratic Perspectives /

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 politi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chrostowska, S., Ingram, James
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Colección:New directions in critical theory.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Utopia and Politics
  • I. Reviving Utopia
  • 1. The History of Utopia and the Destiny of Its Critique
  • 2. Is the Classic Concept of Utopia Ready for the Future?
  • 3. Utopia and Natural Illusions
  • II. Questioning Utopia
  • 4. Marx and Utopia
  • 5. General Wish Or General Will? Political Possibility and Collective Capacity from Rousseau Through Marx
  • 6. After Utopia, Imagination?
  • 7. A Strange Fate for Politics: Jameson's Dialectic of Utopian Thought
  • III. Utopia and Radical Politics
  • 8. The Reality of Utopia
  • 9. Negativity and Utopia in the Global Justice Movement
  • 10. Utopianism and Prefiguration
  • IV. Permanence of Utopia
  • 11. The Senses and Uses of Utopia
  • 12. Realism, Wishful Thinking, Utopia
  • 13. Desire and Shipwreck: Powers of the Vis Utopica
  • Coda
  • Utopia, Alibi
  • Contributors
  • Index.