Political Uses Of Utopia New Marxist Anarchist And Radical Democratic Perspectives 1st Edition by Chrostowska, James Ingram 9780231544313 0231544316

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ISBN 10: 0231544316

ISBN 13: 9780231544313

Author: S.D. Chrostowska, James D. Ingram

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 politics think utopia otherwise? Can utopian thinking contribute to the renewal of politics? In Political Uses of Utopia, an international cast of leading and emerging theorists agree that the uses of utopia for politics are multiple and nuanced and lie somewhere between—or, better yet, beyond—the mainstream caution against it and the conviction that another, better world ought to be possible. Representing a range of perspectives on the grand tradition of Western utopianism, which extends back half a millennium and perhaps as far as Plato, these essays are united in their interest in the relevance of utopianism to specific historical and contemporary political contexts. Featuring contributions from Miguel Abensour, Étienne Balibar, Raymond Geuss, and Jacques Rancière, among others, Political Uses of Utopia reopens the question of whether and how utopianism can inform political thinking and action today.

Table of contents:

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

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