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Full Description
This volume explores the connection between two phenomena usually thought to be utterly incongruous, even antithetical: 'utopia' 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.
Contents
Contents: Bakhtin's Carnival: Utopia as Critique - 'A Very Understandable Horror of Dialectics': Bakhtin and Merleau-Ponty - Utopia and Everyday Life in French Social Thought - A Postmodern Utopia? Heller and Fehér's Critique of Messianic Marxism - Everyday Utopianism: Lefebvre and His Critics - The Grandchildren of Marx and Coca-Cola: Lefebvre, Utopia and the 'Recuperation' of Everyday Life.
