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Utopia has long been banished from political theory, framed as an
impossible-and possibly dangerous-political ideal, a flawed social
blueprint, or a thought experiment without any practical import.
Even the "realistic utopias" of liberal theory strike many as
wishful thinking. Can politics think utopia otherwise? Can utopian
thinking contribute to the renewal of politics? In Political Uses
of Utopia, an international cast of leading and emerging theorists
agree that the uses of utopia for politics are multiple and nuanced
and lie somewhere between-or, better yet, beyond-the mainstream
caution against it and the conviction that another, better world
ought to be possible. Representing a range of perspectives on the
grand tradition of Western utopianism, which extends back half a
millennium and perhaps as far as Plato, these essays are united in
their interest in the relevance of utopianism to specific
historical and contemporary political contexts. Featuring
contributions from Miguel Abensour, Etienne Balibar, Raymond Geuss,
and Jacques Ranciere, among others, Political Uses of Utopia
reopens the question of whether and how utopianism can inform
political thinking and action today.
Utopia has long been banished from political theory, framed as an
impossible-and possibly dangerous-political ideal, a flawed social
blueprint, or a thought experiment without any practical import.
Even the "realistic utopias" of liberal theory strike many as
wishful thinking. Can politics think utopia otherwise? Can utopian
thinking contribute to the renewal of politics? In Political Uses
of Utopia, an international cast of leading and emerging theorists
agree that the uses of utopia for politics are multiple and nuanced
and lie somewhere between-or, better yet, beyond-the mainstream
caution against it and the conviction that another, better world
ought to be possible. Representing a range of perspectives on the
grand tradition of Western utopianism, which extends back half a
millennium and perhaps as far as Plato, these essays are united in
their interest in the relevance of utopianism to specific
historical and contemporary political contexts. Featuring
contributions from Miguel Abensour, Etienne Balibar, Raymond Geuss,
and Jacques Ranciere, among others, Political Uses of Utopia
reopens the question of whether and how utopianism can inform
political thinking and action today.
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