Nina Rismal

The Ends of Utopian Thinking in Critical Theory

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Produktbeschreibung

The Ends of Utopian Thinking in Critical Theory offers a critical account of how utopian thinking became defeated as a tool of philosophy whose explicit objective has been to not only analyse but emancipate the world. While such philosophy was originally inseparable from ideas of a radically better society it aimed to realise, many of its most influential practitioners today object to the use of utopian ideas. Countering this scepticism, Nina Rismal offers a moving defense of utopian thinking. By elucidating a concept of utopia freed of its alleged pitfalls, The End of Utopian Thinking in Critical Theory contends that utopian thinking indeed presents an important resource for achieving emancipatory social goals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 150mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 280g
• ISBN-13: 9798888902196
• Artikelnr.: 69920855

Autorenporträt

Nina Rismal is a researcher, organiser and founder interested in social transformation and future thinking. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge and worked for mission-driven research institutes in the US and Germany. In 2022 she co-founded Possible Worlds, a startup that integrates interdisciplinary insights into the development of AI.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Note on Translations
Introduction
 1 The Blow to Utopia from the Left
 2 The Road Not Taken
 3 (Political) Utopian Thinking
 4 Critical Theory
 5 A New Perspective on Contemporary Critical Theory
1 Marx’s Two Utopian Paradoxes
 1 The Deployment of the Label ‘Utopian’ and Its Consequences
 2 Marx’s Vision of the Communist Society
 3 Utopia Cannot Be Envisaged
 4 Imaginary vs. Rational Ideas
 5 Utopian Visions Are Insignificant
2 The Origins of Adorno’s Utopieverbot
 1 Adorno and Marxist Theory in the Early Twentieth Century
 2 What Is the Utopieverbot?
 3 From the Bilderverbot to the Utopieverbot
 4 Marx’s Influence on the Utopieverbot
 5 The Removal of Utopia into the Messianic Future
 6 Culture Industry and Utopian Consciousness
 7 The Problem with Identity Thinking
3 Negative Utopia?
 1 Positive Utopia – a Point of Departure for Negative Thinking
 2 Does Determinate Negation Make Sense?
 3 The Emergence of the Positive in Constellations
 4 Something Is Missing
4 Bloch’s Rejection of the Utopieverbot
 1 Bloch’s Life and Times
 2 Utopia as the ‘Not-Yet’
 3 The Warm and Cold Streams of Marxism
 4 Bloch’s Utopian Society: ‘Heimat’
 5 The Utopian Core: ‘Invariant of Direction’
 6 Traces Experiences and Expressions of Utopia
 7 Concrete Utopian Thinking
5 An Ontology of Processual Utopia
 1 The Prefigurations of Utopia in the ‘Not-Yet-Conscious’
 2 Incompleteness of the World as the ‘Not-Yet-Become’
 3 The Necessity of Utopian Thinking
 4 Processual Utopia and Processual Utopian Thinking
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index