Rethinking Utopia
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Abstract
Rethinking Utopia is a collection that discusses utopian thinking in relation to different philosophical themes. It seeks utopianism in political theory (particularly in Kant and Derrida), populism, Turkish Islamism, international law, and it fleshes out themes of modernism and classless society in the selected utopian examples. By discussing and showing the relationship between utopia and these topics, the book shows that the range of subjects related to utopias is wider than the current literature suggests.
The book attempts to bring together academic fields, which are not cross-fertilized in the existing debates on utopia, by building bridges between actual politics and futuristic visions. On the one hand, it looks at utopia as a means to think about and reconfigure contemporary politics (as in the case of international law and populist politics); on the other hand, it investigates how different philosophical/literary texts, from widely-known More and Le Guin to lesser-known Turkish Islamists Kısakürek, Karakoç and Özel, imagine their distinct utopian vision where a new form of anarchist, classless or Islamist society could be possible.
Schlagworte
Redemptive Politics Modernism International Humanitarian Law Turkish Islamism Ursula K. Le Guin Utopia as Free-Play The Classless Society Thomas More- 1–10 Introduction 1–10
- 11–56 Part I 11–56
- 57–116 Part II 57–116
- 117–120 Index 117–120
- 121–122 About the Contributors 121–122