Omschrijving
Informed by feminist, Marxist, ethnographic, and post-structuralist frameworks, Utopia Method Vision makes a unique contribution to international debates in cultural, literary, sociological, and political studies of utopian theory, texts, and practices. The collection addresses the ways in which the contributors approach their study of the objects and practices of utopianism (understood as social anticipations and visions produced through texts and social experiments) and of how, in turn, those objects and practices have shaped their intellectual work in general and their research perspectives in particular. In so doing, the contributors develop a larger, self-critical look at the limits and potential of the entire paradigm by which utopianism is known, studied, critiqued, created, and received. Informed by feminist, Marxist, ethnographic, and post-structuralist frameworks, Utopia Method Vision makes a unique contribution to international debates in cultural, literary, sociological, and political studies of utopian theory, texts, and practices.
The collection addresses the ways in which the contributors approach their study of the objects and practices of utopianism (understood as social anticipations and visions produced through texts and social experiments) and of how, in turn, those objects and practices have shaped their intellectual work in general and their research perspectives in particular. In so doing, the contributors develop a larger, self-critical look at the limits and potential of the entire paradigm by which utopianism is known, studied, critiqued, created, and received. Acknowledgements
9(4)
Introduction: Utopia as Method
13(12)
Tom Moylan
Raffaella Baccolini
The Curious Relationship Between Politics and Utopia
25(22)
Lucy Sargisson
The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society: Utopia as Method
47(22)
Ruth Levitas
Political Theory, Utopia, Post-Secularism
69(18)
Vincent Geoghegan
Rethinking Modern British Utopianism: Community and the Mastery of Desire
87(26)
Gregory Claeys
Here or Nowhere: Utopia, Modernity, and Totality
113(18)
Phillip E. Wegner
More Aliens Transforming Utopia: The Futures of Reader Response and Utopian Studies
131(28)
Kenneth M. Roemer
Finding Utopia in Dystopia: Feminism, Memory, Nostalgia, and Hope
159(32)
Raffaella Baccolini
Realizing Better Futures, Strong Thought for Hard Times
191(32)
Tom Moylan
Utopia and the Beloved Community
223(22)
Naomi Jacobs
Beyond This Horizon: Utopian Visions and Utopian Practice
245(22)
Peter Fitting
New Spaces for Utopian Politics: Theorizing About Identity, Community, and the World Conference Against Racism
267(34)
Hoda M. Zaki
Choosing Utopia: Utopianism as an Essential Element in Political Thought and Action
301(18)
Lyman Tower Sargent
Conclusion: Utopia as Vision
319(6)
Raffaella Baccolini
Tom Moylan
Notes on Contributors
325(6)
Index
331