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Zusatztext Vieira and Marder's volume is to be welcomed as a highly valuable contribution to on-going debates around post-metaphysical conceptions of the political and the possibility of anti-foundationalist political projects. The diversity and quality of the essays presented demonstrate the productive possibilities of the 'fleeting, precarious universals' they invoke and the necessity for these debates to be continued and responded to with urgency and commitment. Informationen zum Autor Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz. He is the Associate Editor of Telos: A Quarterly Journal of Critical Thought and the author of The Event of The Thing: Derrida's Post-Deconstructive Realism (2009).Patricia I. Vieira is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, in the Comparative Literature Program, and in the Film and Media Studies Program of Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA. Klappentext The original essays contributed by leading thinkers aim to revitalize utopian thinking and apply it to contemporary national and international politics. Vorwort The original essays contributed by leading thinkers aim to revitalize utopian thinking and apply it to contemporary national and international politics. Zusammenfassung Radical political thought of the 20th century was dominated by utopia, but the failure of communism in Eastern Europe and its disavowal in China has brought on the need for a new model of utopian thought. This book thus seeks to redefine the concept of utopia and bring it to bear on today's politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Utopia: A Political Ontology Michael Marder and Patrícia Vieira PART I: Utopia Unbound 1. In Place of Utopia Jean-Luc Nancy 2. Utopia, Counter-Utopia, Irony Gianni Vattimo 3. From Modern Utopias to Contemporary Uchronia Alexandre Franco de Sá 4. Existential Utopia—Of the World, the Possible, the Finite Michael Marder and Patrícia Vieira 5. Still / Encore Márcia Cavalcante-Schuback 6. The Theater of Utopia: Deleuze On Acting and Politics Cláudia Baracchi PART II: Putting Utopia to Work 7. Ernst Bloch, Utopia and Ideology Critique Douglas Kellner 8. Secularism and Post-Secularism in Roberto Unger and Ernst Bloch: Towards a Utopian Ontology Ruth Levitas 9. At the End of Utopia—Indifference Josep Ramoneda 10. History, Politics, and Utopia: Towards a Synthesis of Social Theory and Practice Laurence Davis 11. A Practical Utopia for the Twenty-First Century Robert Albritton Notes Bibliography ...
