Utopia Matters : Theory Politics, Literature and the Arts.

Intro -- Index -- Utopia(n) Matters: Introduction -- PART I - UTOPIA MATTERS -- Utopia Matter: a personal testimony -- What is your field? -- On the exit from one's cave: Utopian thoughts on language diversities -- Out to save the world: scholars and the utopian vision -- Why I am a member of the "Party of Utopia -- Utopia Matters? -- Utopia Matters! -- Why Utopia Matters -- Pourquoi l'utopie? -- PART II - UTOPIAN MATTERS -- THEORY -- From Contemporary Utopias to Contemporaneity as a Utopia -- Criticism as Utopia -- Postmodern Utopianism: Deleuze and Guattari and the Escape from Politics -- Brief Notes on Utopia, Dystopia and History -- POLITICS -- The Intersection of Utopianism and Communitarianism -- Holistic Organizations, Intentional Communities, and the Global Peace and Justice Movement: Gaia at Alcatraz, Italy -- Utopia and Agriculture: Reconsidering the Reforms of tha CAP from the Standpoint of Owen's Communitarianism -- The Good Time Coming": British Utopian Socialism in the Wake of 1848 -- Literature and Propaganda: The Socialist Utopia of Robert Blatchford -- Utopian Gesture in the Cold Climate of Thatcherism: Caryl Churchill's Top Girls and Fen -- LITERATURE AND THE ARTS -- The Dynamics of Space in the 20th Century Utopian/Dystopian Fiction -- Art as Utopia in Eutopean Avant-garde Movements -- Art and Aesthetics in Utopia: William Morris's Response to the Challenge of the "Art to the People -- Utopian Music: Music History of the Future in Novels by Bellamy, Callenbach and Huxley -- Music and Utopia - The European Anthem: Kant, Schiller and Beethoven -- Cyberpunk versus Empire: Constructing Technotopia in the New World Order -- Images of Upotia and Dystopia: From the Sea to Hyperspace.

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