... of urban and cultural renewal known as the ‘Neapolitan Renaissance’. This article addresses two novels – Giuseppe Montesano’s Di questa vita menzognera (2003) and Ruggero Cappuccio’s Fuoco su Napoli (2010) – which alert us to the utopianism of the cultural and ‘symbolic politics...

... cosmology economics Luddism modelling rationality nuclear power temporality divination fortune-telling apocalyptic catastrophism utopianism time temporal horizons God gods religion What difference might it make if parts of this enfolded ancient knowledge were unfolded, recovered and adapted...

... was unique and, eventually, evolved into a heated debate with Jawaharlal Nehru over the brutality of Bolshevik prisons. Acharya’s different approach to the question of freedom, the chapter illustrates, brought together anticolonialism, anarchism, and utopianism in ways that open new ways of understanding...

... utopianism realism totalitarianism Athenian Stranger Platonic interpretation This book offers a new reading of Plato’s last and longest dialogue, the Laws. ¹ Widely regarded as Plato’s most political text, the Laws dramatizes a conversation about...

... on the development of character and intellect. In his preludes, the lawgiver persuades the citizens rationally of the truth about the world and themselves: citizens are to receive a true and reasoned account of what is good for human beings. 4 The utopian city thereby realizes what may be called Platonic civic...

... and Austria. The experience of working in refugee camps reinforced her sensitivity to the plight of displaced persons. After the war she left the Communist Party but still supported radicalism, writing a number of essays, including, in 1958, the notable essay on utopian socialism, ‘A House of Theory’. She...

... and the imposition of utopian schemes upon the awkward practicalities of political life, just as Oakeshott’s scepticism casts doubt 190 on theories that would sacrifice the present for some supposed future happiness. Oakeshott’s own articulation of a practice of politics, a universitas, a civil...

... political novel, Jerusalem, featuring utopian socialists, with which Murdoch struggled. She eventually decided against publishing it. Conradi read a surviving draft of the novel when working on Murdoch s biography. He was not impressed. In a blog post for the Iris Murdoch Society, Miles Leeson reports...

... that Cervantes intended his book to satirize the false utopianism of Spain's lower nobility. On the literary front, Don Quixote is regarded as ‘anti-utopia’ by Gary Saul Morson, who claims that the novel parodies and discredits the utopian genre as a whole. Castro Américo cervantes saavedra...

...: utopianism, socialism, the democratic economy, and local/global levels. The chapter outlines how the book is international, discussing alternatives at a global level and located and relevant internationally, including in the Global South. The introduction also outlines how the book is designed for students...

...The conclusion summarizes the chapters and their main coverage. It outlines how the book has covered both alternatives in theory and alternatives being tried now or in the past in practical, realizable forms. It reiterates and reasserts the main core of the book, which is for utopianism in many...

... in the context of More’s life and the world in which he lived. It also outlines the extensive critical and historiographical traditions associated with Utopia and utopianism. The second half then explains how the Handbook brings together for the first time three different ways of thinking about...

... alienation apparatus of compeerist capture commoning sustainability anarchism Spanish Revolution Young Iris Marion compeerism post-capitalism utopianism futurism bio-region libertarian municipalism partner state mutualism market socialism post-Westphalian The most fundamental distinction...

...This chapter examines the films of Tacita Dean, Matthew Buckingham, and Joachim Koester—whose works portray abandoned architectural spaces where failed utopian projects were once built—using Michel Foucault’s notion of heterotopia. Similar to Foucault’s heterotopias, Dean’s, Buckingham’s...

...This chapter examines the interface between realism, utopianism, and science fiction in a number of Verne's novels. These novels provide an interesting case study of the way in which a particular vision of society is constructed from a number of different nineteenth-century perspectives. The works...

... recios Harsh Times Vargas Llosa’ Trujillo Rafael Leónidas United Fruit Company United States Borrero Parra Marta Panama literature and politics Nobel prize in literature dictatorship novel historical fiction authoritarianism and violence fanaticism and utopianism metafiction Prolific...

...This chapter discusses the utopian literary responses to growing affluence, luxury, and inequality that were both satirical and programmatic in the later eighteenth century. In Britain, literary and practical utopianism was mostly developed by two groups of republican writers. The first...

..., Knightriders parallels the utopianism of Emile Zola's final novels, Fécondité (1899), Travail (1901) and Vérité (1903). The Age of Innocence film The Conversation film Coppola Francis Ford Country film idealism Kael Pauline Knightriders film...

...This chapter presents Irving Howe's 1993 essay “Two Cheers for Utopia,” in which he talks about utopia. In particular, Howe reflects on the democratic utopianism that characterizes American intellectual life as well as the utopia of community and egalitarianism. He argues that it is necessary...

...This book examines the distinctive strain of transatlantic utopianism found within the work of four writers—a group that it calls the “last utopians”—of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Focusing...