Exploring the Utopian Impulse: Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice (Paperback)

Contents: Michael J. Griffin/Tom Moylan: Introduction: Exploring Utopia ? Ruth Levitas: The Archive of the Feet: Memory, Place, and Utopia ? Eugene O’Brien: ≪Towards Justice to Come≫: Derrida and Utopian Justice ? Susan McManus: Truth, Temporality, and Theorizing Resistance ? Christopher Yorke: Three Archetypes for the Clarification of Utopian Theorizing ? Vincent Geoghegan: Utopia and the Memory of Religion ? Antonis Balasopoulos: The Fractured Image: Plato, the Greeks, and the Figure of the Ideal City ? Geraldine Sheridan: Technological Utopia/Dystopia in the Plates of the Encyclopedie ? Matthew Beaumont: The Party of Utopia: Utopian Fiction and the Politics of Readership 1880-1900 ? Dan Smith: H.G. Wells’s First Utopia: Materiality and Portent ? Michael G. Kelly: Immanence and the Utopian Impulse: On Philippe Jaccottet’s Readings of Æ and Robert Musil ? Philip Schweighauser: Who’s Afraid of Dystopia? William Gibson’s Neuromancer and Fredric Jameson’s Writing on Utopia and Science Fiction ? Paula Murphy: Paradise Lost: The Destruction of Utopia in The Beach ? Michael J. Griffin/Dara Waldron: Across Time and Space: The Utopian Impulses of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker ? Caitriona Ni Dhuill: ≪One loves the girl for what she is, and the boy for what he promises to be≫: Gender Discourse in Ernst Bloch’s Das Prinzip Hoffnung ? Aidan O’Malley: Rhyming Hope and History in the ≪Fifth Province≫ ? Timothy Keane: The Chartist Land Plan: An English Dream, an Irish Nightmare ? Lucian M. Ashworth: The League of Nations as a Utopian Project: The Labour Party Advisory Committee on International Questions and the Search for a New World Order ? Jenny Andersson: Beyond Utopia? The Knowledge Society and the Third Way ? Andrew J. Brown: Witchcrafting Selves: Remaking Person and Community in a Neo-Pagan Utopian Scene ? Barrie Wharton: From Shukri Mustafa to the Ashwaiyat: Utopianism in Egyptian Islamism.