Utopia from Thomas More to Walter Benjamin

Miguel Abensour is a French philosopher best known for his influence in shepherding the reception of the Frankfurt School in France. He has written several works on utopia, including L’homme est un animal utopique and most recently L’histoire de l’utopie et le destin de sa critique.¿
Raymond N. MacKenzie is professor of English at the University of St. Thomas.

Summary

Utopia poses a question. Not simply in the sense of a problem to be resolved and at the same time eliminated . . . but in the sense that, within the economy of the human condition, utopia, the aim of social alterity of all social otherness is ceaselessly being reborn, coming back to life despite all the blows rained down upon it, as if human resist

Product details

• Authors: Miguel Abensour
• Publisher: Univocal Publishing LLC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9781945414008
• ISBN: 978-1-945414-00-8
• No. of pages: 114
• Dimensions: 204 mm x 129 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 160 g
• Series: Univocal; Univocal
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas