Political Uses of Utopia : : New Marxist, Anarchist, and Radical Democratic Perspectives / / ed. by S. Chrostowska, James Ingram.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Abensour, Miguel,; Balibar, Étienne,; Buey, Francisco Fernández,; Chrostowska, S. D.,; Fischbach, Franck,; Geuss, Raymond,; Grant, John,; Hallward, Peter,; Ingram, James D.,; Kinna, Ruth,; Löwy, Michael,; Rancière, Jacques,; Riot-Sarcey, Michèle,; Saage, Richard,; Tassin, Étienne,
• HerausgeberIn: Chrostowska, S.,; Ingram, James,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: New Directions in Critical Theory ; 26
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction: Utopia and Politics
• 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
• Coda
• Utopia, Alibi
• Contributors
• Index