Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity
"Wegner demonstrates a wide-ranging yet lighthanded philosophical learnedness, an urgent political conscience, and a deeply historical sense that narrative utopias are like specters that haunt particular moments of upheaval, crisis, and contradiction within modernity: whether the threshold between the vestiges of feudal agrarian society and early modern English capitalism, conflicts between the new oligarchy of industrializing late nineteenth-century United States and the increasing militancy of the labor movement, the uneven successes and failures of the Russian Revolution of 1905, or the mid-century Cold War struggles."-Lisa Lowe, author of immigrant Acts; "Insightful and provocative.... A valuable contribution to our thinking about the politics of imagination."-Daniel Cottom, author of Cannibals and Philosophies