The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Davis, Laurence; Stillman, Peter

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz as 'The most striking description I know of the seductions-and snares-of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society.' To date, however, the radical social, cultural, and political ramifications of Le Guin's multiple award-winning novel remain woefully under explored. Editors Laurence Davis and Peter Stillman right this state of affairs in the first ever collection of original essays devoted to Le Guin's novel. Among the topics covered in this wide-ranging, international and interdisciplinary collection are the anarchist, ecological, post-consumerist, temporal, revolutionary, and open-ended utopian politics of The Dispossessed. The book concludes with an essay by Le Guin written specially for this volume, in which she reassesses the novel in light of the development of her own thinking over the past 30 years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978798151
• Artikelnr.: 74833621

Autorenporträt

Edited by Laurence Davis and Peter Stillman - Contributions by Tony Burns; Claire Curtis; Laurence Davis; Winter Elliot; Chris Ferns; Everett Hamner; Ursula K. Le Guin; Avery Plaw; Andrew Reynolds; Ellen Rigsby; Jennifer Rodgers; Dan Sabia; Bülent Somay;

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Open-ended Utopian Politics Chapter 3 The
Dynamic and Revolutionary Utopia of Ursula K. Le Guin Chapter 4 Worlds
Apart: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Possibility of Method Part 5
Post-Consumerist Politics Chapter 6 The Dispossessed as Ecological
Political Theory Chapter 7 Ursula K. Le Guin, Herbert Marcuse, and the Fate
of Utopia in the Postmodern Chapter 8 The Alien Comes Home: Getting Past
the Twin Planets of Possession and Austerity in Le Guin's The Dispossessed
Part 9 Anarchist Politics Chapter 10 Individual and Community in Le Guin's
The Dispossessed Chapter 11 The Need for Walls: Privacy, Community, and
Freedom in The Dispossessed Chapter 12 Breaching Invisible Walls:
Individual Anarchy in The Dispossessed Part 13 Temporal Politics Chapter 14
Time and the Measure of the Political Animal Chapter 15 Fulfillment as a
Function of Time, or the Ambiguous Process of Utopia Chapter 16 Science and
Politics in The Dispossessed: Le Guin and the "Science Wars" Part 17
Revolutionary Politics Chapter 18 The Gap in the Wall: Partnership,
Physics, and Politics in The Dispossessed Chapter 19 From Ambiguity to
Self-Reflexivity: Revolutionizing Fantasy Space Chapter 20 Future
Conditional or Future Perfect? The Dispossessed and Permanent Revolution
Part 21 Open-ended Utopian Politics Chapter 22 Ambiguous Choices:
Skepticism as a Grounding for Utopia Chapter 23 Empty Hands: Communication,
Pluralism and Community in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed Part 24 A
Response, by Ansible, from Tau Ceti Part 25 Further Reading