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Rethinking Utopia
Interdisciplinary Approaches
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2022
Summary
Rethinking Utopia is a collection that discusses utopian thinking in relation to different philosophical themes. It seeks utopianism in political theory (particularly in Kant and Derrida), populism, Turkish Islamism, international law, and it fleshes out themes of modernism and classless society in the selected utopian examples. By discussing and showing the relationship between utopia and these topics, the book shows that the range of subjects related to utopias is wider than the current literature suggests.
The book attempts to bring together academic fields, which are not cross-fertilized in the existing debates on utopia, by building bridges between actual politics and futuristic visions. On the one hand, it looks at utopia as a means to think about and reconfigure contemporary politics (as in the case of international law and populist politics); on the other hand, it investigates how different philosophical/literary texts, from widely-known More and Le Guin to lesser-known Turkish Islamists Kısakürek, Karakoç and Özel, imagine their distinct utopian vision where a new form of anarchist, classless or Islamist society could be possible.
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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-0695-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-0696-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
122
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
Utopia as Free Play No access
The Search for a Better Place No access
Utopia and The Law of Humanity No access
Modernism in Thomas More’s Utopia No access
The Classless Society in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Utopia No access
