This volume explores the connection between two phenomena usually thought to be utterly incongruous, even antithetical: ¿utopiä and ¿everyday life¿. It presents a series of essays, written over the last twenty years, which rethink the nature and prospects of utopianism in a world that has grown increasingly sceptical as to the possibility of systemic socio-political transformation in a positive direction. Through critical interdisciplinary engagements with a wide variety of thinkers ranging from Mikhail Bakhtin to Henri Lefebvre and beyond, many of whom are often read as anti-utopian figures, the essays argue that it is possible to locate utopian promises buried deep within the embodied rituals, practices and symbolic forms associated with everyday existence, in a manner that reveals the essential openness of the present day to momentous future change.
| Autorius: | Michael Gardiner |
| Serija: | Ralahine Utopian Studies |
| Leidėjas: | Peter Lang |
| Išleidimo metai: | 2013 |
| Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 288 |
| ISBN-10: | 3034307160 |
| ISBN-13: | 9783034307161 |
| Formatas: | Knyga minkštu viršeliu |
| Kalba: | Anglų |
| Žanras: | Social theory |
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