Inventions of Nemesis Utopia, Indignation, and Justice

Résumé

A wide-ranging reevaluation of utopian literature and philosophy, from Plato to Chang-Rae LeeExamining literary and philosophical writing about ideal societies from Greek antiquity to the present, Inventions of Nemesis offers a striking new take on utopia's fundamental project.Noting that utopian imagining has often been propelled by an ang

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Douglas Mao, Mao Douglas
• Edition: Princeton University Press
• Contenu: Livre
• Forme du produit: Livre de poche
• Date de parution: 10.11.2020
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée
• EAN: 9780691199252
• ISBN: 978-0-691-19925-2
• Nombre de pages: 298
• Catégories: Satire, Suggestion, Institution, Literature, Politics, Globalization, Precarity, Dystopia, Capitalism, Political Ideologies, Utopia, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Writing, Narrative, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, Political Philosophy, Theory, Ernst Bloch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Utopias, Politique, Employment, H. G. Wells, John Rawls, Criticism, Juvenal, Racism, Neoliberalism, Ideology, Decolonization, ursula k. le guin, The Dispossessed, Deliberation, Wealth, Rhetoric, Literature: history & criticism, Social Justice, Cosmopolitanism, sovereignty, Literature: history and criticism, Slavery, Political ideologies and movements, Consideration, Global Justice, Aristotle, Robert Nozick, personhood, Optimism, Edward Bellamy, Elaine Scarry, Publication, distributive justice, ridicule, fredric jameson, original position, Bolsheviks, Laborer, Their Lives, hostility, Obedience (human behavior), The State and Revolution, news from nowhere, Just society, A Theory of Justice, communist society, Johns Hopkins, Wai Chee Dimock, The Principle of Hope, Dual power, A Modern Utopia, Open border, Synecdoche, Walden Two, The Law of Peoples, Utopian and dystopian fiction, Looking Backward, Modern Language Association, Houyhnhnm