Utopia: Social Theory and the Future (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Tester, Keith; Jacobsen, Michael Hviid

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In addition to considering the role of social theory in the imagination of alternative futures, this volume reflects on how social theory may assist us in understanding and appreciating utopia or utopianism as a special topic of interest, a special subject matter, a special analytical focus or a special normative dimension of sociological thinking. Bringing together the latest work from a leading team of social theorists, this volume will be of interest to sociologists, social and political theorists, anthropologists and philosophers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317002987
• Artikelnr.: 44782616

Autorenporträt

Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark, and co-editor of The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman, Encountering the Everyday, and The Transformation of Modernity. Keith Tester is Professor at The Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology at LaTrobe University, Australia and Senior Fellow at the Centrum MyÅ¿li Jana PawÅ'a II, Warsaw, Poland. He is author of Humanitarianism and Modern Culture, Moral Culture, The Social Thought of Zygmunt Bauman, and Animals and Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: utopia as a topic for social theory
Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Keith Tester; Part I Theoretical Musings: Utopia and the end of history
Henk de Berg; What is concrete about Ernst Bloch's 'concrete utopia'?
Peter Thompson; Dreams
visions and utopias - romantic and realist revolutionaries and the idyllic
Arpad Szakolczai; Liquid modern 'utopia' - Zygmunt Bauman on the transformation of utopia
Michael Hviid Jacobsen; Houellebecq's dystopia - a case of the elective affinity between sociology and literature
Anders Petersen and Michael Hviid Jacobsen. Part II Theories in Motion: Utopia and criminology
Peter Young; Utopianism
dystopianism and ecological thought
Kate Rigby; Social movement as utopian practice
Andrew Jamison; Virtual utopias and dystopias - the cultural imaginary of the internet
Majid Yar; Utopias of mobility
Ole B. Jensen and Malene Freudendal-Pedersen; Index.