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Weak Messianism: Essays in Everyday Utopianism

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By (author): Michael Gardiner

This volume explores the connection between two phenomena usually thought to be utterly incongruous, even antithetical: utopia and everyday life. It presents a series of essays, written over the last twenty years, which rethink the nature and prospects of utopianism in a world that has grown increasingly sceptical as to the possibility of systemic socio-political transformation in a positive direction. Through critical interdisciplinary engagements with a wide variety of thinkers ranging from Mikhail Bakhtin to Henri Lefebvre and beyond, many of whom are often read as anti-utopian figures, the essays argue that it is possible to locate utopian promises buried deep within the embodied rituals, practices and symbolic forms associated with everyday existence, in a manner that reveals the essential openness of the present day to momentous future change. See more
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  • Weight: 420g
  • Dimensions: 150 x 225mm
  • Publication Date: 11 Jan 2013
  • Publisher: Peter Lang AG Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
  • Publication City/Country: Switzerland
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9783034307161

About Michael Gardiner

Michael E. Gardiner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario Canada. He is the author of numerous books journal articles and book chapters on dialogical social theory ethics everyday life and utopianism concentrating in particular on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin Henri Lefebvre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

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