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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press,
[2017]
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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.