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Becoming Utopian : The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation.

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"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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Moylan, Tom
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020.
Subjects:
Utopias.
Utopias in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • Appendix: Susan Browne, "Report to an Academy"
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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