Utopia, Limited : : Romanticism and Adjustment / / Anahid Nersessian.
What is utopia if not a perfect impossible world? Anahid Nersessian reveals the basic misunderstanding of that ideal. Applying the lessons of art to the rigors of life on an imperiled planet, she enlists the Romantics to redefine utopia as an investment in limitation—not a perfect world but one wher...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Edition: | Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. Rcsm, an Introduction -- 2. Worldfeel from Kant to Wordsworth -- 3. Losing Ground in Shelley’s Revolt -- 4. Bad Taste, or Varieties of Empire and Anticolonialism -- 5. Hazlitt’s Disappointment -- 6. Narrating Capital, Reading Rcsm -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Summary: | What is utopia if not a perfect impossible world? Anahid Nersessian reveals the basic misunderstanding of that ideal. Applying the lessons of art to the rigors of life on an imperiled planet, she enlists the Romantics to redefine utopia as an investment in limitation—not a perfect world but one where we get less than we hoped but more than we had. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674425101 9783110665901 |
DOI: | 10.4159/9780674425101 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Anahid Nersessian. |