Publications

Authors:

Benison, Liam

Title:

Introduction: Towards Utopian Possibilities

Year:

2023

Type of item:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Tipologia ANVUR:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Book Title:

Utopian Possibilities: Models, Theories, Critiques

Publisher:

U.Porto Press

ISBN:

978-989-746-359-4

Page numbers:

27-32

Keyword:

Utopian literature, critical utopias, Intentional communities, Imagined communities,

Short description of contents:

Paul Tillich highlighted the essential tension of utopian hope, which the authors of the essays in this volume address from a variety of perspectives. As Ruth Levitas explains, although utopia has “real power to transform the given, social world, including the economic”, Tillich warns that a side effect of the struggle “to negate the negative in human experience” is disillusionment as a result of the failure to recognize the provisionality of utopian possibilities (Levitas, 2013: 17–18). This tension is essential to modern utopian thinking, one set in play by Thomas More, who Fátima Vieira argues, is responsible for reconfiguring utopian desire as a tension between the affirmation of a possibility and the negation of its fulfilment (Vieira, 2010: 4). Engagement with this tension is critical to realizing the best possibilities from utopian thought and action.

Web page:

https:/doi.org/10.21747/978-989-746-359-4/uto

Product ID:

138690

Handle IRIS:

11562/1122808

Last Modified:

March 24, 2024

Bibliographic citation:

Benison, Liam, Introduction: Towards Utopian Possibilities Utopian Possibilities: Models, Theories, Critiques , U.Porto Press , 2023 , pp. 27-32

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