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A dream of a better world is a powerful human force that inspires activists, artists, and citizens alike. In this book Tom Moylan - one of the pioneering scholars of contemporary utopian studies - explores the utopian process in its individual and collective trajectory from dream to realization. Drawing on theorists such as Fredric Jameson, Donna Haraway and Alain Badiou and science fiction writers such as Kim Stanley Robinson and China Miéville, Becoming Utopian develops its argument for sociopolitical action through studies that range from liberation theology, ecological activism, and radical pedagogy to the radical movements of 1968. Throughout, Moylan speaks to the urgent need to confront and transform the global environmental, economic, political and cultural crises of our time.
Contents
Preface, Ruth Levitas
Introduction: Becoming Utopian
1. Strong Thought in Hard Times: Utopia, Pedagogy, Agency
2. Bloch Against Bloch: The Theological Reception of Das Prinzip Hoffnung and the Liberation of the Utopian Function
3. Denunciation/Annunciation: The Utopian Methodology of Liberation Theology
4. Look Into the Dark: On Dystopia and the Novum
5. Making the Present Impossible: On the Vocation of Utopian Science Fiction
6. N-H-N: Kim Stanley Robinson's Dialectics of Ecology
7. "To Live Consciously is to Sow the Whirlwind": Reflecions on the Utopian Standpoint of Nonviolence
8. Steps of Renewed Praxis: Tracking the Utopian Method
9. Still Demanding the Impossible: '68 and the Critical Utopian Imagination
Afterword, Philip E. Wegner (University of Florida, USA)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
