Chrostowska / Ingram Political Uses of Utopia

New Marxist, Anarchist, and Radical Democratic Perspectives
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-231-54431-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 26, 376 Seiten

Reihe: New Directions in Critical Theory

Contemporary political theorists from Europe and North America open an overdue debate on the ties between politics and utopianism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chrostowska, S.

Ingram, James

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Utopia and Politics, by James D. Ingram
Part I. Reviving Utopia
1. The History of Utopia and the Destiny of Its Critique, by Miguel Abensour
2. Is the Classic Concept of Utopia Ready for the Future?, by Richard Saage
3. Utopia and Natural Illusions, by Francisco Fernández Buey
Part II. Questioning Utopia
4. Marx and Utopia, by Franck Fischbach
5. General Wish or General Will? Political Possibility and Collective Capacity from Rousseau Through Marx, by Peter Hallward
6. After Utopia, Imagination?, by Étienne Balibar
7. A Strange Fate for Politics: Jameson's Dialectic of Utopian Thought, by John Grant
Part III. Utopia and Radical Politics
8. The Reality of Utopia, by Michèle Riot-Sarcey
9. Negativity and Utopia in the Global Justice Movement, by Michaël Löwy
10. Utopianism and Prefiguration, by Ruth Kinna
Part IV. Permanence of Utopia
11. The Senses and Uses of Utopia, by Jacques Rancière
12. Realism, Wishful Thinking, Utopia, by Raymond Geuss
13. Desire and Shipwreck: Powers of the Vis Utopica, by Étienne Tassin
Coda
14. Utopia, Alibi, by S. D. Chrostowska
List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

S. D. Chrostowska teaches humanities and social and political thought at York University and is the author of the critical-philosophical fragments Matches (2015), the novel Permission (2013), and Literature on Trial: The Emergence of Critical Discourse in Germany, Poland, and Russia, 1700-1800 (2012).

James D. Ingram teaches political theory at McMaster University. He is the author of Radical Cosmopolitics: The Ethics and Politics of Democratic Universalism (Columbia, 2013).