Existential utopia : new perspectives on utopian thought

✍ Scribed by Vieira, Patricia I.; Marder, Michael

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic;Continuum International Publishing
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 189
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 politics. The original essays, contributed by key thinkers such as Gianni Vattimo and Jean-Luc Nancy, highlight the connection between utopian theory and practice. The book reassesses the legacy of utopia and conceptualizes alternatives to the neo-liberal, technocratic regimes prevalent in today's world. It. Read more...

Abstract:

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 politics. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: 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.

✦ Subjects

Utopias -- Philosophy. Existentialism. Communism. Utopian thought. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.