Exploring the Utopian Impulse. Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice, Michael J. GRIFFIN et Tom MOYLAN (dir.)

GRIFFIN, Michael J. et Tom MOYLAN [dir.], Exploring the Utopian Impulse. Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Bruxelles / New York / Oxford / Wien, Peter Lang (Ralahine Utopian Studies), 2007, 434 p.
ISBN 978-3-03910-913-5


RÉSUMÉ

Exploring the Utopian Impulse presents a series of essays by an international and trans-disciplinary group of contributors that explores the nature and extent of the utopian impulse. Working across a range of historical periods and cultures, the essays investigate key aspects of utopian theory, texts, and socio-political practices. Even as some critique Utopia, others extend its reach beyond the limits of the modern western tradition within which utopianism has usually been understood. The explorations offered herein will take readers over familiar ground in new ways as well as carry them into new territories of hope and engagement.


TABLE DES MATIÈRES

Michael J. Griffin/Tom Moylan: Introduction: Exploring Utopia 

Ruth Levitas: The Archive of the Feet: Memory, Place, and Utopia 

Eugene O'Brien: «Towards Justice to Come»: Derrida and Utopian Justice 

Susan McManus: Truth, Temporality, and Theorizing Resistance 

Christopher Yorke: Three Archetypes for the Clarification of Utopian Theorizing 

Vincent Geoghegan: Utopia and the Memory of Religion 

Antonis Balasopoulos: The Fractured Image: Plato, the Greeks, and the Figure of the Ideal City 

Geraldine Sheridan: Technological Utopia/Dystopia in the Plates of the Encyclopédie

Matthew Beaumont: The Party of Utopia: Utopian Fiction and the Politics of Readership 1880-1900 

Dan Smith: H.G. Wells's First Utopia: Materiality and Portent

Michael G. Kelly: Immanence and the Utopian Impulse: On Philippe Jaccottet's Readings of Æ and Robert Musil 

Philip Schweighauser: Who's Afraid of Dystopia? William Gibson's Neuromancer and Fredric Jameson's Writing on Utopia and Science Fiction 

Paula Murphy: Paradise Lost: The Destruction of Utopia in The Beach

Michael J. Griffin/Dara Waldron: Across Time and Space: The Utopian Impulses of Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker

Caitríona Ní Dhúill: «One loves the girl for what she is, and the boy for what he promises to be»: Gender Discourse in Ernst Bloch's Das Prinzip Hoffnung

Aidan O'Malley: Rhyming Hope and History in the «Fifth Province» 

Timothy Keane: The Chartist Land Plan: An English Dream, an Irish Nightmare 

Lucian M. Ashworth: The League of Nations as a Utopian Project: The Labour Party Advisory Committee on International Questions and the Search for a New World Order

Jenny Andersson: Beyond Utopia? The Knowledge Society and the Third Way 

Andrew J. Brown: Witchcrafting Selves: Remaking Person and Community in a Neo-Pagan Utopian Scene 

Barrie Wharton: From Shukri Mustafa to the Ashwaiyat: Utopianism in Egyptian Islamism.


BIOGRAPHIE

Michael J. Griffin (Lecturer in English Studies, University of Limerick) has published several articles on eighteenth-century, utopian, and Irish studies, in journals such as the Review of English Studies, Eighteenth-Century Ireland, the Field Day Review, and Utopian Studies.
Tom Moylan (Glucksman Professor and Director, Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies, University of Limerick) has published Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination; Scraps of the Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia; Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination; and Utopia Method Vision: The Use Value of Social Dreaming (with Raffaella Baccolini).