Utopia As Method The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society

Name: Utopia As Method The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society
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ISBN: 9780230231979

ISBN-10: 0230231977

ISBN-13: 9780230231979

Edition: 2013

Authors: Ruth Levitas

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In this major new work by one of the leading writers on Utopian Studies, Ruth Levitas argues that a prospective future of ecological and economic crises poses a challenge to the utopian imaginary. To conceive a better world, and alternative future, Utopia as Method does not construe utopia as a goal or blueprint, but as a holistic, reflexive method for developing what those possible futures might be. It begins by treating utopia as the quest for grace, through a hermeneutics that recovers theutopian meaning in our culture, explored through colour and music. Moving from the existential to the social, it draws on H. G. Wells's claim that the creation of utopias is the distinctive and proper…

Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 8/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 5.79" wide x 8.40" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 8.030
Language: English

Ruth Levitas is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bristol.



Preface and Acknowledgements


Introduction






From Terror to Grace



Riff on Blue



Echoes of Elsewhere






Between Sociology and Utopia



Utopia Denied



Utopia Revised



The Return of the Repressed






Utopia as Archaeology



Utopia as Ontology



Utopia as Architecture


Notes


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Index