Anarchism and utopianism

Herausgeber: Davis, Laurence; Kinna, Ruth

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Produktbeschreibung

The first book-length treatment of the relationship between anarchism and utopianism reveals the anarchistic influences active in the history of utopian thought. It provides fresh perspectives on academic and activist debates about ecology, alternatives to capitalism, revolutionary theory and practice, and the politics of art, gender and sexuality. -- .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9780719096679
• ISBN-10: 0719096677
• Artikelnr.: 41199588

Autorenporträt

Laurence Davis is Lecturer in Politics at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Ruth Kinna is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Loughborough University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Laurence Davis Part I: Historical and philosophical overview
1. Anarchism and the dialectic of utopia - John P. Clark PART II:
Antecedents of the anarchist literary utopia 2. Daoism as utopian or
accommodationist: radical Daoism reexamined in light of the Guodian
Manuscripts - John A. Rapp 3. Diderot's *Supplément au voyage de
Bougainville*: steps towards an anarchist utopia - Peter G. Stillman Part
III: Anti-capitalism and the anarchist utopian literary imagination 4.
Everyone an artist: art, labour, anarchy, and utopia - Laurence Davis 5.
Anarchist powers: B. Traven, Pierre Clastres, and the question of utopia -
Nicholas Spencer 6. Utopia, anarchism and the political implications of
emotions - Gisela Heffes 7. Anarchy in the archives: notes from the ruins
of Sydney and Melbourne - Brian Greenspan Part IV: Free love: anarchist
politics and utopian desire 8. Speaking desire: anarchism and free love as
utopian performance in fin de siècle Britain - Judy Greenway 9. Visions of
the future: reproduction, revolution and regeneration in American anarchist
utopian fiction - Brigitte Koenig 10. Intimate fellows: utopia and chaos in
the early post-Stonewall gay liberation manifestos - Dominic Ording Part V:
Rethinking revolutionary practice 11. Anarchism, utopianism and the
politics of emancipation - Saul Newman 12. Anarchism and the politics of
utopia - Ruth Kinna 13. 'The space now possible': anarchist education as
utopian hope - Judith Suissa 14. Utopia in contemporary anarchism - Uri
Gordon Index