Utopia as Method The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society
Utopia should be understood as a method rather than a goal. This book rehabilitates utopia as a repressed dimension of the sociological and in the process produces the Imaginary Reconstitution of Society, a provisional, reflexive and dialogic method for e
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Utopia as Method The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society Ruth Levitas University of Bristol, UK
© Ruth Levitas 2013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-0-230-23196-2 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries ISBN 978-0-230-23197-9 ISBN 978-1-137-31425-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137314253 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
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Contents Preface and Acknowledgements
viii
Introduction
xi
Part I 1 From Terror to Grace
3
2 Riff on Blue
20
3 Echoes of Elsewhere
40
Part II 4 Between Sociology and Utopia
65
5 Utopia Denied
85
6 Utopia Revised
103
7 The Return of the Repressed
127
Part III 8 Utopia as Archaeology
153
9 Utopia as Ontology
175
10 Utopia as Architecture
197
Notes
221
Select Bibliography
249
Index
261
vii
Preface and Acknowledgements In 2002, Tom Moylan, founding Director of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies at the University of Limerick in the Irish Republic, invited a number of established scholars in utopian studies to reflect on how they had used utopia in their own work. Those papers were eventually published as a collection edited by Tom Moylan and Raffaella Baccolini as Utopia, Method, Vision.1 My own contribution developed the idea of utopia as method in terms of the Imaginary Reconstitution of Society, or IROS. I had written about utopia as method before, in an article on social policy published the previous year,2 but th
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