Weak Messianism

Essays in Everyday Utopianism

von Michael Gardiner

273 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This volume explores the connection between two phenomena usually thought to be utterly incongruous, even antithetical: ‘utopia’ and ‘everyday life’. It presents a series of essays, written over the last twenty years, which rethink the nature and prospects of utopianism in a world that has grown increasingly sceptical as to the possibility of systemic socio-political transformation in a positive direction. Through critical interdisciplinary engagements with a wide variety of thinkers ranging from Mikhail Bakhtin to Henri Lefebvre and beyond, many of whom are often read as anti-utopian figures, the essays argue that it is possible to locate utopian promises buried deep within the embodied rituals, practices and symbolic forms associated with everyday existence, in a manner that reveals the essential openness of the present day to momentous future change.

• Reihe: Ralahine Utopian Studies
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Soziologie Sozialtheorie
• ISBN: 9783034307161
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.01.2013
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers