Becoming Utopian : The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation.
"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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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Contents -- Foreword Ruth Levitas -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Introduction: Becoming Utopian -- 1 Strong Thought: Utopia, Pedagogy, Agency -- 2 Bloch Against Bloch: Liberating Utopia -- 3 Denunciation/Annunciation: Utopian Method -- 4 Look into the Dark: Dystopia and the Novum -- 5 On the Vocation of Utopian Science Fiction -- 6 N-H-N': Robinson's Dialectics of Ecology -- 7 On the Utopian Standpoint of Nonviolence -- 8 Next Steps: Tracking the Utopian Method -- Coda: '68 and the Critical Utopian Imagination -- Afterword: For Those Who Come Before Phillip E. Wegner. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Appendix: Susan Browne, "Report to an Academy" -- Notes -- References -- Index. | |
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