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The Utopian Constellation

Author : Chamsy el-Ojeili
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030325164
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Utopian Constellation written by Chamsy el-Ojeili and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the utopian dimension of contemporary social and political thought. Arguing for a utopian optic for the human sciences, el-Ojeili claims that major transformations of the utopian constellation have occurred since the end of the twentieth century. Following a survey of major utopian shifts in the modern period, el-Ojeili focuses on three spaces within today’s utopian constellation. At the liberal centre, we see a splintering effect, particularly after the global financial crisis of 2008: a contingent neo-liberalism, a neo-Keynesian turn, and a liberalism of fear. At the far-Right margin, we see the consolidation of post-fascism, a combination of “the future in the past”, elements of the post-modern present, and appeals to a novel future. Finally, at the far-Left, a new communism has emerged, with novel positions on resistance, maps of power, and a contemporary variant of the Left’s artistic critique. The Utopian Constellation will be of interest to scholars and students across the human sciences with an interest in utopian studies, ideological and discourse analysis, the sociology of knowledge, and the study of political culture.

Law and the Utopian Imagination

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804791864
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Law and the Utopian Imagination written by Austin Sarat and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law and the Utopian Imagination seeks to explore and resuscitate the notion of utopianism within current legal discourse. The idea of utopia has fascinated the imaginations of important thinkers for ages. And yet—who writes seriously on the idea of utopia today? The mid-century critique appears to have carried the day, and a belief in the very possibility of utopian achievements appears to have flagged in the face of a world marked by political instability, social upheaval, and dreary market realities. Instead of mapping out the contours of a familiar terrain, this book seeks to explore the possibilities of a productive engagement between the utopian and the legal imagination. The book asks: is it possible to re-imagine or revitalize the concept of utopia such that it can survive the terms of the mid-century liberal critique? Alternatively, is it possible to re-imagine the concept of utopia and the theory of liberal legality so as to dissolve the apparent antagonism between the two? In charting possible answers to these questions, the present volume hopes to revive interest in a vital topic of inquiry too long neglected by both social thinkers and legal scholars.

Utopian Thought in the Western World

Author : Frank Edward MANUEL
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674040562
Total Pages : 907 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Utopian Thought in the Western World written by Frank Edward MANUEL and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 907 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors have structured five centuries of utopian invention by identifying successive constellations, groups of thinkers joined by common social and moral concerns. Within this framework they analyze individual writings, in the context of the author's life and of the socio-economic, religious, and political exigencies of his time.

Human Geography

Author : Mark Boyle
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118451503
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Human Geography written by Mark Boyle and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the story of the “West and the world” as its backdrop, this book provides for beginning students a clear and concise introduction to Human Geography, including its key concepts, seminal thinkers and their theories, contemporary debates, and celebrated case studies. Introduces and applies the basic concepts of human geography in clear, concise, and engaging prose Explores the significance of the rise, reign, and faltering of the West from around the fifteenth century in the shaping of the key demographic, environmental, social, economic, political, and cultural processes active in the world today Addresses important thinkers, debates, and theories in an accessible manner with a focus on discerning the inherent Western bias in human geographical ideas Incorporates case studies that explore human geographies which are being made in both Western and non Western regions, including Latin America, Africa and Asia. Is written so as to be accessible to students and contains chapter learning objectives, checklists of key ideas, chapter essay questions, zoom in boxes, guidance for further reading and a book glossary. Accompanied by a website at www.wiley.com/go/boyle featuring, for students, tutorial exercises, bonus zoom in boxes, links to further learning resources and biographies of key thinkers, and for instructors, further essay questions, multiple choice exam questions, and ppt lecture slides for each chapter.

Utopia

Author : Thomas More
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Utopia written by Thomas More and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-03 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.

Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults

Author : Carrie Hintz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135373361
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults written by Carrie Hintz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines a variety of utopian writing for children from the 18th century to the present day, defining and exploring this new genre in the field of children's literature. The original essays discuss thematic conventions and present detailed case studies of individual works. All address the pedagogical implications of work that challenges children to grapple with questions of perfect or wildly imperfect social organizations and their own autonomy. The book includes interviews with creative writers and the first bibliography of utopian fiction for children.

Utopias of Otherness

Author : Fernando Arenas
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816638161
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Utopias of Otherness written by Fernando Arenas and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forges a new understanding of how these two Lusophone nations are connected. The closely entwined histories of Portugal and Brazil remain key references for understanding developments--past and present--in either country. Accordingly, Fernando Arenas considers Portugal and Brazil in relation to one another in this exploration of changing definitions of nationhood, subjectivity, and utopias in both cultures. Examining the two nations' shared language and histories as well as their cultural, social, and political points of divergence, Arenas pursues these definitive changes through the realms of literature, intellectual thought, popular culture, and political discourse. Both Brazil and Portugal are subject to the economic, political, and cultural forces of postmodern globalization. Arenas analyzes responses to these trends in contemporary writers including Jose Saramago, Caio Fernando Abreu, Maria Isabel Barreno, Vergilio Ferreira, Clarice Lispector, and Maria Gabriela Llansol. Ultimately, Utopias of Otherness shows how these writers have redefined the concept of nationhood, not only through their investment in utopian or emancipatory causes such as Marxist revolution, women's liberation, or sexual revolution but also by shifting their attention to alternative modes of conceiving the ethical and political realms.

Is Star Trek Utopia?

Author : Sebastian Stoppe
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476646686
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Is Star Trek Utopia? written by Sebastian Stoppe and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star Trek has transcended science fiction through its use of elements that have crucial roles in classical utopian tradition. New technologies change a civilization, a miniature society unfolds on a spaceship, and an android teaches humanity. Star Trek has been answering many questions about our own world for 50+ years, and since the days of Captain Kirk, the franchise has become one of the world's best-known cultural phenomena. This book documents what the Star Trek franchise has in common with classic utopias. Chapters analyze how technology changes society and how the Federation embodies utopian ideals. Also explored are the political relations among alien species that reflect past and present conflicts in our real world and how the Borg resembles an anti-utopian society.

Rethinking Democracy for Post-Utopian Worlds

Author : Jorge León Casero
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031534913
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Democracy for Post-Utopian Worlds written by Jorge León Casero and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

No Other Planet

Author : Mathias Thaler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316516474
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book No Other Planet written by Mathias Thaler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the role of hope and fear in our climate-changed world by focusing on various expressions of the utopian imagination.

The Ends of Utopian Thinking in Critical Theory

Author : Nina Rismal
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900467845X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Ends of Utopian Thinking in Critical Theory written by Nina Rismal and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers a critical account of how utopian thinking became defeated as a tool of philosophy whose explicit objective has been to not only analyse but emancipate the world. While such philosophy was originally inseparable from ideas of a radically better society it aimed to realise, many of its most influential practitioners today object to the use of utopian ideas. Countering this scepticism, the book argues in favour of utopian thinking. By elucidating a concept of utopia freed of its alleged pitfalls, the book contends that utopian thinking indeed presents an important resource for achieving emancipatory social goals.

The Politics of Utopia

Author : Barbara Goodwin
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039110803
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Utopia written by Barbara Goodwin and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides both an introduction to utopianism and a general perspective on radical political thought. Vigorously disputing the widespread conviction that utopianism is a fantasy with no relevance to modern political life and thought, the authors argue that it is a concept whose special virtue lies in its capacity to transcend the limitations of present circumstances, to inspire alternative thinking and to open up new directions for political action. This book develops an approach which relates social causes to political theory and practice. The first part discusses utopianism as a form of political theory with unique characteristics and the ability to transcend the present. The second part considers utopianism as an expression of fundamental social impulses and as an ingredient of modern political movements. The third part offers a defence of utopianism as both theory and practice, and argues for its use to counteract the pragmatism and narrow empiricism which often passes for political «realism» in modern societies. This reissue of a popular and well-received landmark text contains a new preface.

The Weariness of Democracy

Author : Obed Frausto
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030193411
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Weariness of Democracy written by Obed Frausto and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberal democracy today, having aligned itself with capitalism, is producing a generalized feeling of weariness and disillusionment with government among the citizenry of many countries. Because of a decades-long march of globalized capitalism, economic oligarchies have gained oppressive levels of political power, and as a result, the economic needs of many people around the world have been neglected. It then becomes essential to remember that our ability to change society emerges from our power to formulate different questions; or, in this case, alternative understandings of democracy. This book draws together a variety of alternative theories of democracies in a quest to expose readers to a selection of the most exciting and innovative new approaches to politics today. The consideration of these leading alternative conceptualizations of democracy is important, as it is now common to see xenophobic and racist rhetoric using the platform of liberal democracy to threaten ideas of plurality, diversity, equality, and economic justice. In looking at four different models of democracy (utopian democracy, radical democracy, republican democracy, and plural democracy) this book argues that encounters with alternate conceptualizations of democracy is necessary if citizens and scholars are going to understand the constellation of possibilities that exist for inclusive, plural, economically equal, and just societies.

Utopia in the Age of Globalization

Author : Robert T. Tally Jr.
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230391907
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Utopia in the Age of Globalization written by Robert T. Tally Jr. and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of "Utopia" has made a comeback in the age of globalization, and the bewildering technological shifts and economic uncertainties of the present era call for novel forms of utopia. Tally argues that a new form of utopian discourse is needed for understanding, and moving beyond, the current world system.

Political Theory, Science Fiction, and Utopian Literature

Author : Tony Burns
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739144871
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Political Theory, Science Fiction, and Utopian Literature written by Tony Burns and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-02-19 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed is of interest to political theorists partly because of its association with anarchism and partly because it is thought to represent a turning point in the history of utopian/dystopian political thought and literature and of science fiction. Published in 1974, it marked a revival of utopianism after decades of dystopian writing. According to this widely accepted view The Dispossessed represents a new kind of literary utopia, which Tom Moylan calls a 'critical utopia.' The present work challenges this reading of The Dispossessed and its place in the histories of utopian/dystopian literature and science fiction. It explores the difference between traditional literary utopia and novels and suggests that The Dispossessed is not a literary utopia but a novel about utopianism in politics. Le Guin's concerns have more to do with those of the novelists of the 19th century writing in the tradition of European Realism than they do with the science fiction or utopian literature. It also claims that her theory of the novel has an affinity with the ancient Greek tragedy. This implies that there is a conservatism in Le Guin's work as a creative writer, or as a novelist, which fits uneasily with her personal commitment to anarchism.

Utopia Ltd.

Author : Matthew Beaumont
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047407091
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Utopia Ltd. written by Matthew Beaumont and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This literary-historical account of late-nineteenth century utopianism offers a fascinating rereading of the fin de siècle in terms of the political futures that were produced in England during a period of cultural upheaval, and marks an original contribution to the Marxist critique of utopian ideology.

Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Utopia Experiment

Author : Kyle Mills
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1455572330
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Utopia Experiment written by Kyle Mills and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the president has been forced to establish his own clandestine group--Covert-One. It's activated only as a last resort, when the threat is on a global scale and time is running out.The Utopia Experiment When Dresner Industries unveils the Merge, a device that is destined to revolutionize the world and make the personal computer and smartphone obsolete, Covert-One operative Colonel Jon Smith is assigned to assess its military potential. He discovers that enhanced vision, real-time battlefield displays, unbreakable security, and near-perfect marksmanship are only the beginning of a technology that will change the face of warfare forever--and one that must be kept out of the hands of America's enemies at all costs. Meanwhile, in the mountains of Afghanistan, CIA operative Randi Russell encounters an entire village of murdered Afghans--all equipped with enhanced Merge technology that even the Agency didn't know existed. As Smith and Russell delve into the circumstances surrounding the Afghans' deaths, they're quickly blocked by someone who seems to have access to the highest levels of the military--a person that even the president knows nothing about. Is the Merge really as secure as its creator claims? And what secrets about its development is the Pentagon so desperate to hide? Smith and Russell are determined to learn the truth. But they may pay for it with their lives . . .