Rethinking Utopia (eBook, PDF)

Interdisciplinary Approaches
Redaktion: Ozan, Ebru Deniz

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 Kisakürek, Karakoç and Özel, imagine their distinct utopian vision where a new form of anarchist, classless or Islamist society could be possible.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978772861
• Artikelnr.: 74398328

Autorenporträt

Ebru Deniz Ozan is currently a faculty member at Kütahya Dumlupinar University, Department of Political Science and International Relations.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I
Chapter 1: Utopia as Free Play by Hayrettin Özler
Chapter 2: The Search for a Better Place: Populist and Utopian Redemption
by Volkan Gül
Chapter 3: Utopia and The Law of Humanity: An International Humanitarian
Law Perspective by Ramazan Güresci
Part II
Chapter 4: Modernism in Thomas More's Utopia by Süleyman Sidal
Chapter 5: The Classless Society in Ursula K. Le Guin's Utopia: Always
Coming Home by Ebru Deniz Ozan
Chapter 6: Turkish Islamism and Utopia: Collating the Works of Necip Fazil
Kisakürek, Sezai Karakoç, and Ismet Özel by Ertugrul Zengin