Utopia as Method [electronic resource] : The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society /
Levitas, R.author.
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 exploring alternative possible futures.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- From terror to grace -- Riff on blue -- Echoes of elsewhere -- Between sociology and utopia -- Utopia denied -- Utopia revised -- The return of the repressed -- Utopia as archaeology -- Utopia as ontology -- Utopia as architecture -- Bibliography.
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 exploring alternative possible futures.
Political theory.
Political philosophy.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Social sciences.
Political sociology.
Political Theory.
Political Philosophy.
Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
Social Theory.
Methodology of the Social Sciences.
Political Sociology.