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The Task of Utopia
A Pragmatist and Feminist Perspective
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ISBN-13:
9781461666608
Veröffentl:
2001
Seiten:
192
Autor:
Erin McKenna
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Are utopian visions viable in the 21st century? Utopia has been equated, for many, with totalitarianism. Such visions are not acceptable. The loss of utopian visions altogether is also unacceptable. This book argues that American Pragmatism and Feminist theory can combine to provide a process model of utopia that pushes to build a flexible future that helps us deal with change, conflict, and diversity without resorting to fixed ends.
At their best, both American pragmatism and utopianism are about hope. Both encourage people to think about the future as a guide to understanding the past and forming the present. Just as pragmatism has often been misunderstood as valueless instrumentalism, utopianism has been limited to dreams of a static perfect world. In this book, Erin McKenna argues that utopian vision informed by pragmatism results in a process model of utopia that can help form the future based on critical intelligence. Using John Dewey's works with feminist theory and literature, McKenna develops this pragmatist feminist model of utopia.
1 The Problem of the Future
2 The End-state Model of Utopia
3 The Anarchist Model of Utopia
4 Dewey's Democracy: A Process Model of Utopia
5 Feminism, Pragmatism, Community, and Utopia
6 The Future of Utopia
2 The End-state Model of Utopia
3 The Anarchist Model of Utopia
4 Dewey's Democracy: A Process Model of Utopia
5 Feminism, Pragmatism, Community, and Utopia
6 The Future of Utopia