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Utopia as Method - The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society (Paperback)
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Utopia as Method - The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society (Paperback)
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In this major new work by one of the leading writers on Utopian
Studies, Ruth Levitas argues that a prospective future of
ecological and economic crises poses a challenge to the utopian
imaginary. To conceive a better world, and alternative future,
Utopia as Method does not construe utopia as a goal or blueprint,
but as a holistic, reflexive method for developing what those
possible futures might be. It begins by treating utopia as the
quest for grace, through a hermeneutics that recovers the utopian
meaning in our culture, explored through colour and music. Moving
from the existential to the social, it draws on H. G. Wells's claim
that the creation of utopias is the distinctive and proper method
of sociology, and on the tentative reappearance of utopia in
contemporary social theory. It proposes a constructive method, the
Imaginary Reconstitution of Society. This fusion of explicitly
normative social theory and analytic critique rehabilitates utopia
as an integral part of sociology, and offers a means of collective
engagement in shaping a better tomorrow.
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