Defined by a Hollow - Essays on Utopia, Science Fiction and Political Epistemology (Paperback, New edition)

This volume incorporates Darko Suvin's thinking on utopian horizons in fiction and on eutopian and dystopian readings of historical reality since the 1970s. While the focus is on the United States and the United Kingdom, the essays also draw on French, German and Russian sources. The book is composed of eighteen chapters, including four sets of poems. The chapters include heretic reflections on utopian fiction, science fiction and utopian studies, explorations of dystopias, and epistemological examinations of political standpoint. Throughout, plebeian history is the stance from which all the author's value judgements are made. The essays and poems engage with the empirical world and identify areas of hope. In a dark dystopian time, they reaffirm eutopia, the radically better place to be striven for in every here and now.

General

Imprint:	Verlag Peter Lang
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Ralahine Utopian Studies, 6
Release date:	May 2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Darko Suvin
Dimensions:	220 x 150 x 44mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	586
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-911403-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
LSN:	3-03-911403-4
Barcode:	9783039114030

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