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Utopia should be understood as a method rather than a goal. This book rehabilitates utopia as a repressed dimension of the sociological and in the process produces the Imaginary Reconstitution of Society, a provisional, reflexive and dialogic method for exploring alternative possible futures.
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Preface and Acknowledgements
1.T. Moylan and R. Baccolini (eds) (2007) Utopia, Method, Vision: The Use Value of Social Dreaming (Bern: Peter Lang).
2.R. Levitas (2001) ‘Against Work: A Utopian Incursion into Social Policy’, Critical Social Policy, 21(4): 449–65.
3.M. J. Griffin and T. Moylan (eds) (2007) Exploring the Utopian Impulse (Bern: Peter Lang).
Introduction
1.H. G. Wells (1906) ‘The So-called Science of Sociology’, Sociological Papers, 3:367.
2.L. T. Sargent (2011) Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press) p. 6.
3.B. Schulz (1998) ‘The Republic of Dreams’, in B. Schulz The Collected Works of Bruno Schultz, ed. J. Ficowski (London: Picador) pp. 266–72.
4.R. Jacoby (2005) Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an Anti-utopian Age (New York: Columbia University Press) pp. 113, xiv.
5.G. Kateb (1967) ‘Utopia and the Good Life’, in F. E. Manuel (ed.) Utopias and Utopian Thought (Boston: Beacon Press) p. 239.
6.A. Gorz (1999) Reclaiming Work: Beyond the Wage-Based Society (Cambridge: Polity Press) p. 113.
7.E. Bloch (1970) A Philosophy of the Future (New York: Herder and Herder) p. 91.
1 From Terror to Grace
1.W. Wordsworth (1809) The French Revolution As It Appeared To Enthusiasts At Its Commencement, http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/726/, accessed 6 April 2011.
2.J. K. Rowling (1997) Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (London: Bloomsbury) pp. 152, 157.
3.R. Levitas (1990) The Concept of Utopia (Hemel Hempstead: Philip Allan) reissued 2010, 2011 (Bern: Peter Lang).
4.E. P. Thompson (1977) William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary (London: Merlin Press) pp. 790–1. Max Blechman’s translation of Abensour (1999) renders this as ‘[t]he point is not for utopia (unlike the tradition that calls for the “moral education of humanity”) to assign “true” or “just” goals to desire but rather to educate desire, to stimulate it, to awaken it – not to assign it a goal but to open a path for it: … Desire must be taught to desire, to desire better, to desire more, and above all to desire otherwise’. M. Abensour (1999) ‘William Morris: The Politics of Romance’, in Max Blechman (ed.) Revolutionary Romanticism (San Francisco: City Lights Books) p. 145.
5.E. Bloch (1986) The Principle of Hope (London: Basil Blackwell) p. 13.
6.R. Jacoby (2005) Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian Age (New York: Columbia University Press) p. 35.
7.Bloch, Principle, p. 249. See also R. Levitas (1997) ‘Educated Hope: Ernst Bloch on Abstract and Concrete Utopia’, in Jamie Owen Daniel and Tom Moylan (eds) (1997) Not Yet: Reconsidering Ernst Bloch (London, Verso).
8.E. Bloch (1988) The Utopian Function of Art and Literature (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press) p. 42.
9.Bloch, Principle, p. 1376. The English translation renders Heimat as ‘homeland’. This never captured the resonance of Heimat, and in the context of twenty-first-century US policy, including the Homeland Secur...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Introduction
- Part I
- Part II
- Part III
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index