Becoming utopian : the culture and politics of radical transformation / Tom Moylan ; foreword by Ruth Levitas ; afterword by Philip E. Wegner.
"A dream of a better world is a powerful human force that inspires political activists and science fiction writers alike. In this book Tom Moylan - one of the pioneering scholars of contemporary utopian studies - explores the theory, the practice and the urgency of the utopian impulse. From the...
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London, UK ; New York, NY :
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2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Strong thought in hard times: utopia, pedagogy, agency
- Bloch against Bloch: the theological reception of Das prinzip Hoffnungand the liberation of the utopian function
- Denunciation/annunciation: the utopian methodology of liberation theology
- Look into the dark: on dystopia and the novum
- Making the present impossible: on the vocation of utopian science fiction. N-H-N': Kim Stanley Robinson's dialectics of ecology
- "To live consciously is to sow the whirlwind": reflections on the utopian standpoint of nonviolence
- Steps of renewed praxis: tracking the utopian method
- Coda: still demanding the impossible, 68 and the critical utopian imagination, with Hugh O'Connell.