Utopia Method Vision: The Use Value of Social Dreaming

Abstract

This collection addresses the ways in which the contributors approach their study of the objects and practices of utopianism (understood as social anticipations and visions produced through texts and social experiments) and of how, in turn, those objects and practices have shaped their intellectual work and research perspectives. Introduction: Utopia as method / Tom Moylan and Raffaella Baccolini -- The curious relationship between politics and utopia / Lucy Sargisson -- The imaginary reconstitution of society : utopia as method / Ruth Levitas -- Political theory, utopia, post-secularism / Vincent Geoghegan -- Rethinking modern British utopianism : community and the mastery of desire / Gregory Claeys -- Here or nowhere : utopia, modernity, and totality / Phillip E. Wegner -- More aliens transforming utopia : the futures of reader response and utopian studies / Kenneth M. Roemer -- Finding utopia in dystopia : feminism, memory, nostalgia, and hope / Raffaella Baccolini -- Realizing better futures, strong thought for hard times / Tom Moylan -- Utopia and the beloved community / Naomi Jacobs -- Beyond this horizon : utopian visions and utopian practice / Peter Fitting -- New spaces for utopian politics : theorizing about identity, community, and the World Conference Against Racism / Hoda M. Zaki -- Choosing utopia : utopianism as an essential element in political thought and action / Lyman Tower Sargent -- Conclusion: Utopia as vision / Raffaella Baccolini and Tom Moylan.