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Utopia, Limited - Romanticism and Adjustment (Hardcover)
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Utopia, Limited - Romanticism and Adjustment (Hardcover)
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What is utopia if not a perfect world, impossible to achieve?
Anahid Nersessian reveals a basic misunderstanding lurking behind
that ideal. In Utopia, Limited she enlists William Blake, William
Wordsworth, John Keats, and others to redefine utopianism as a
positive investment in limitations. Linking the ecological
imperative to live within our means to the aesthetic philosophy of
the Romantic period, Nersessian's theory of utopia promises not an
unconditionally perfect world but a better world where we get less
than we hoped, but more than we had. For the Romantic writers, the
project of utopia and the project of art were identical. Blake
believed that without limits, a work of art would be no more than a
set of squiggles on a page, or a string of nonsensical letters and
sounds. And without boundaries, utopia is merely an extension of
the world as we know it, but blighted by a hunger for having it
all. Nersessian proposes that we think about utopia as the
Romantics thought about aesthetics-as a way to bind and thereby
emancipate human political potential within a finite space.
Grounded in an intellectual tradition that begins with Immanuel
Kant and includes Theodor Adorno and Northrop Frye, Utopia, Limited
lays out a program of "adjustment" that applies the lessons of art
to the rigors of life on an imperiled planet. It is a sincere
response to environmental devastation, offering us a road map
through a restricted future.
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