Exploring the Utopian Impulse presents a series of essays by an international and trans-disciplinary group of contributors that explores the nature and extent of the utopian impulse. Working across a range of historical periods and cultures, the essays investigate key aspects of utopian theory, texts, and socio-political practices. Even as some critique Utopia, others extend its reach beyond the limits of the modern western tradition within which utopianism has usually been understood. The explorations offered herein will take readers over familiar ground in new ways as well as carry them into new territories of hope and engagement. Exploring the Utopian Impulse presents a series of essays by an international and trans-disciplinary group of contributors that explores the nature and extent of the utopian impulse. Working across a range of historical periods and cultures, the essays investigate key aspects of utopian theory, texts, and socio-political practices. Even as some critique Utopia, others extend its reach beyond the limits of the modern western tradition within which utopianism has usually been understood. The explorations offered herein will take readers over familiar ground in new ways as well as carry them into new territories of hope and engagement. Acknowledgements 9(2) Introduction: Exploring Utopia 11(8) Michael J. Griffin Tom Moylan Utopian Thought The Archive of the Feet: Memory, Place, and Utopia 19(24) Ruth Levitas ``Towards Justice to Come'': Derrida and Utopian Justice 43(14) Eugene O'Brien Truth, Temporality, and Theorizing Resistance 57(26) Susan McManus Three Archetypes for the Clarification of Utopian Theorizing 83(18) Christopher Yorke Utopia and the Memory of Religion 101(16) Vincent Geoghegan Utopian Texts The Fractured Image: Plato, the Greeks, and the Figure of the Ideal City 117(22) Antonis Balasopolous Technological Utopia/Dystopia in the Plates of the Encyclopedie 139(24) Geraldine Sheridan The Party of Utopia: Utopian Fiction and the Politics of Readership, 1880-1900 163(20) Matthew Beaumont H.G. Wells's First Utopia: Materiality and Portent 183(24) Dan Smith Immanence and the Utopian Impulse: On Philippe Jaccottet's Readings of Æ and Robert Musil 207(18) Michael G. Kelly Who's Afraid of Dystopia? William Gibson's Neuromancer and Fredric Jameson's Writing on Utopia and Science Fiction 225(18) Philip Schweighauser Paradise Lost: The Destruction of Utopia in The Beach 243(14) Paula Murphy Across Time and Space: The Utopian Impulses of Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker 257(16) Michael J. Griffin Dara Waldron ``One loves the girl for what she is, and the boy for what he promises to be'': Gender Discourse in Ernst Bloch's Das Prinzip Hoffnung 273(20) Caitriona Ni Dhuill Rhyming Hope and History in the ``Fifth Province'' 293(20) Aidan O'Malley Utopian Polities The Chartist Land Plan: An English Dream, an Irish Nightmare 313(22) Timothy Keane The League of Nations as a Utopian Project: The Labour Party Advisory Committee on International Questions and the Search for a New World Order 335(22) Lucian M. Ashworth Beyond Utopia? The Knowledge Society and the Third Way 357(18) Jenny Andersson Witchcrafting Selves: Remaking Person and Community in a Neo-Pagan Utopian Scene 375(22) Andrew J. Brown From Shukri Mustafa to the Ashwaiyat: Utopianism in Egyptian Islamism 397(20) Barrie Wharton Notes on Contributors 417(6) Index 423