Inventions of Nemesis : : Utopia, Indignation, and Justice / / Douglas Mao.
A wide-ranging reevaluation of utopian literature and philosophy, from Plato to Chang-Rae LeeExamining literary and philosophical writing about ideal societies from Greek antiquity to the present, Inventions of Nemesis offers a striking new take on utopia’s fundamental project.Noting that utopian im...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Utopian Nemesis
- Savage Indignation
- Nemesis, Nomos, and Justice
- Invention and Counterindignation
- Human Destinies
- 2. Shaping Utopians
- Managerial and Transformative Utopias
- Transformation’s Apogee
- Authenticity contra Conditioning
- Recipients of Justice
- 3. Workers in Motion
- The Time and Place of the Worker
- Freedom through Administration
- Archipelagic Dreams
- A Global Nomos
- Coda
- Notes
- Index