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Inventions of Nemesis - Utopia, Indignation, and Justice (Paperback)
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Inventions of Nemesis - Utopia, Indignation, and Justice (Paperback)
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A wide-ranging reevaluation of utopian literature and philosophy,
from Plato to Chang-Rae Lee Examining literary and philosophical
writing about ideal societies from Greek antiquity to the present,
Inventions of Nemesis offers a striking new take on utopia's
fundamental project. Noting that utopian imagining has often been
propelled by an angry conviction that society is badly arranged,
Douglas Mao argues that utopia's essential aim has not been to
secure happiness, order, or material goods, but rather to establish
a condition of justice in which all have what they ought to have.
He also makes the case that hostility to utopias has frequently
been associated with a fear that they will transform humanity
beyond recognition, doing away with the very subjects who should
receive justice in a transformed world. Further, he shows how
utopian writing speaks to contemporary debates about immigration,
labor, and other global justice issues. Along the way, Inventions
of Nemesis connects utopia to the Greek concept of nemesis, or
indignation at a wrong ordering of things, and advances fresh
readings of dozens of writers and thinkers-from Plato, Thomas More,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edward Bellamy, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and
H. G. Wells to John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Fredric Jameson, Ursula
Le Guin, Octavia Butler, and Chang-Rae Lee. Ambitious and timely,
Inventions of Nemesis offers a vital reconsideration of what it
really means to imagine an ideal society.
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