The Individual and Utopia - A Multidisciplinary Study of Humanity and Perfection (Hardcover, New Ed)

Central to the idea of a perfect society is the idea that communities must be strong and bound together with shared ideologies. However, while this may be true, rarely are the individuals that comprise a community given primacy of place as central to a strong communal theory. This volume moves away from the dominant, current macro-level theorising on the subject of identity and its relationship to and with globalising trends, focusing instead on the individual's relationship with utopia so as to offer new interpretive approaches for engaging with and examining utopian individuality. Interdisciplinary in scope and bringing together work from around the world, The Individual and Utopia enquires after the nature of the utopian as citizen, demonstrating the inherent value of making the individual central to utopian theorizing and highlighting the methodologies necessary for examining the utopian individual. The various approaches employed reveal what it is to be an individual yoked by the idea of citizenship and challenge the ways that we have traditionally been taught to think of the individual as citizen. As such, it will appeal to scholars with interests in social theory, philosophy, literature, cultural studies, architecture, and feminist thought, whose work intersects with political thought, utopian theorizing, or the study of humanity or human nature.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	Clint Jones • Cameron Ellis
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	356
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-4724-2894-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	1-4724-2894-3
Barcode:	9781472428943

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