Introduction: the Elusive Idea of Utopia  

Oleh:

Levitas, Ruth

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: History of the Human Sciences vol. 16 no. 1 (Feb. 2003), page 1–10.
Topik: Ernst Bloch; desire; future; spatiality; totalitarianism; utopia; Irving Velody
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This introductory article discusses the contributions to this number in the light of some general issues arising out of recent writing on utopia. It notes the wide variety of views on the question of definition of utopia, ranging from the anti-utopian dismissal of it as totalitarianism to a broad and flexible vehicle of desire. It traces the shifting accents of utopia consequent on the move beyond modernity – a shift from time to space and from content to process. Only a flexible approach reflected in the variety of articles in this collection can offer glimpses of the most elusive utopia, the transcendence of loss and longing.

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