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Upside-Down Utopia: Directionality for the City of God demonstrates that determining an appropriate heading for utopian affect entails identifying its genesis within past loss, an initial catastrophe defining humankind's nature and struggle, highlighting the need for divine aid to orient the quest for the city of God.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Part I: Utopian Performativity vs. Merely-Political Comb
Chapter One: Utopia Revisited: Performative Process vs. Fixed Destination
Chapter Two: A Tale of Two Hopes, Part One
Chapter Three: A Tale of Two Hopes, Part Two
Part II: Epistemological Structures for Ordering Utopia's Method
Chapter Four: Faith as Utopia's Framework
Chapter Five: The Master's Tools: What Cannot be Utopia's Method
Chapter Six: The Ethical Minefield, a Relational Challenge
Part III: Ontological Frameworks and Practical Correctives Informing Utopia's Method
Chapter Seven: Alternate Futures: Privileged Utopian Correctives
Chapter Eight: Rediscovering an Ancient-Modern Utopian Language
Chapter Nine: A More Excellent Way: Invaded by Love
Conclusion: Mutual Vulnerability: A Disaster-Focused Theory
Appendix: Protopian Theory
Bibliography
About the Author
About the author
Jay Burkette teaches philosophy, political theory, security theory, history, and leadership at Virginia Tech University, Southern New Hampshire University, and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
