Utopia as Method: The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society
by Ruth Levitas
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Autor: Ruth Levitas
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan
Limba: Engleza
Nr. pagini: 288
Coperta: Paperback
Dimensiuni: 14,2 x 1,7 x 24,5 cm
An aparitie: August 22, 2013
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 the utopian 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 method of sociology, and on the tentative reappearance of utopia in contemporary social theory. It proposes a constructive method, the Imaginary Reconstitution of Society. This fusion of explicitly normative social theory and analytic critique rehabilitates utopia as an integral part of sociology, and offers a means of collective engagement in shaping a better tomorrow.
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An aparitie | August 22, 2013 |
Autor | Ruth Levitas |
Dimensiuni | 14,2 x 1,7 x 24,5 cm |
Editura | Palgrave Macmillan |
Format | Paperback |
ISBN | 9780230231979 |
Limba | Engleza |
Nr pag | 288 |
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