Utopia as Method: The Imaginary Reconstitution of SocietyUtopia should be understood as a method rather than a goal. This book rehabilitates utopia as a repressed dimension of the sociological and in the process produces the Imaginary Reconstitution of Society, a provisional, reflexive and dialogic method for exploring alternative possible futures. |
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Abensour abstract alternative anti-utopian architecture argues artistic aspiration Barenboim basic income become Bellamy Bloch blue Cambridge capitalism civil society claim colour critical critique cultural democracy Dennis Potter desire division of labour dream Durkheim dystopia economic equality Ernst Bloch existential feminism fin de siècle future global grace historical hope human flourishing Ibid idea Imaginary Reconstitution imagination implies inequality institutional Jameson John Piper Kandinsky Levitas live London Looking Backward Marinaleda Marxism means meritocracy mode Modern Utopia Morris’s Moylan ontology political position possible postmodern potential prefigurative present production question Real Utopias realistic utopia reality Reconstitution of Society relation Roberto Unger Rorty Sayer sense social imaginary social theory sociologist sociology and utopia Steiner structure suggests t]he Theosophy Tillich tion tive transcendence transformation Unger University Press utopia as method utopian social Utopian Studies William Morris wind singer women