Introduction: Utopia and Politics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Utopia and Politics ix
4. I. Reviving Utopia
5. 1. The History of Utopia and the Destiny of Its Critique 3
6. 2. Is the Classic Concept of Utopia Ready for the Future? 57
7. 3. Utopia and Natural Illusions 80
8. II. Questioning Utopia
9. 4. Marx and Utopia 117
10. 5. General Wish Or General Will? Political Possibility and Collective Capacity from Rousseau Through Marx 126
11. 6. After Utopia, Imagination? 161
12. 7. A Strange Fate for Politics: Jameson’s Dialectic of Utopian Thought 165
13. III. Utopia and Radical Politics
14. 8. The Reality of Utopia 179
15. 9. Negativity and Utopia in the Global Justice Movement 190
16. 10. Utopianism and Prefiguration 198
17. IV. Permanence of Utopia
18. 11. The Senses and Uses of Utopia 219
19. 12. Realism, Wishful Thinking, Utopia 233
20. 13. Desire and Shipwreck: Powers of the Vis Utopica 248
21. Coda
22. Utopia, Alibi 269
23. Contributors 311
24. Index 315