16th century
19th century
20th century
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Author_Phillip Wegner
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criticism
critique
cultural history
cultural studies
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ernst bloch
gilles deleuze
henri lefebvre
homi bhabha
jurgen habermas
karl mannheim
literary
literary criticism
literary history
louis marin
martin heidegger
mikhail bakhtin
modernity
nation state
paul de man
philosophical
philosophy
political
politics
slavoj zizek
social history
social studies
social theory
thomas more
utopian
utopian narrative
utopian theory
utopianism
walter benjamin
Product details
- ISBN 9780520228290
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jun 2002
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Drawing from literary history, social theory, and political critique, this far-reaching study explores the utopian narrative as a medium for understanding the social space of the modern nation-state. Considering the narrative utopia from its earliest manifestation in Thomas More's sixteenth-century work Utopia to some of the most influential utopias of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book is an astute study of a literary genre as well as a nuanced dialectical meditation on the history of utopian thinking as a quintessential history of modernity. As he unravels the dialectics at work in the utopian narrative, Wegner gives an ambitious synthetic discussion of theories of modernity, considering and evaluating the ideas of writers such as Ernst Bloch, Louis Marin, Gilles Deleuze, Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Henri Lefebvre, Paul de Man, Karl Mannheim, Mikhail Bakhtin, Jurgen Habermas, Slavoj Zizek, and Homi Bhabha.
Phillip E. Wegner is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida.
