| 紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: 單行本
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| 副題名: |
the imaginary reconstruction of society |
| 作者: |
LevitasRuth, 1949- |
| 出版地: |
New York |
| 出版者: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| 出版年: |
2013 |
| 面頁冊數: |
1 online resource |
| 標題: |
Social sciences - Philosophy. - |
| 標題: |
Utopias - Political aspects. - |
| 標題: |
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism - |
| 電子資源: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137314253 |
| 附註: |
Description based on print version record |
| 摘要註: |
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 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. |
| ISBN: |
9781137314253electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1137314257electronic bk. |
| 內容註: |
From terror to grace Riff on blue Echoes of elsewhere Between sociology and utopia Utopia denied Utopia revised The return of the repressed Utopia as archaeology Utopia as ontology Utopia as architecture. |