Title
Existential Utopia:
New Perspectives on Utopian Thought
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Editors
MARDER, Michael and VIEIRA, Patricia.
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Description
“This book seeks to redefine the concept of utopia and bring it to bear on today’s politics. Existential Utopia offers a new and exciting interpretation of utopia in contemporary culture and a much-needed intervention into the philosophical and political discussion of utopian thinking.
The original essays [...] highlight the connection between utopian theory and practice. The book reassesses the legacy of utopia and conceptualizes alternatives to the neo-liberal, technocratic regimes prevalent in today’s world. It argues that only utopia in its existential sense, grounded in the lived time and space of politics, can distance itself from mainstream ideology and not be at the service of technocratic regimes, while paying attention to the material conditions of human life.” (C)
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Academic publishing house
Continuum
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Year
2011