%0 Book
%A Michael Gardiner
%D 2012
%C Oxford, United Kingdom
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9783035304206
%T Weak Messianism
%B Essays in Everyday Utopianism
%R 10.3726/978-3-0353-0420-6
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1052427
%X This volume explores the connection between two phenomena usually thought to be utterly incongruous, even antithetical: ‘utopia’ and ‘everyday life’. It presents a series of essays, written over the last twenty years, which rethink the nature and prospects of utopianism in a world that has grown increasingly sceptical as to the possibility of systemic socio-political transformation in a positive direction. Through critical interdisciplinary engagements with a wide variety of thinkers ranging from Mikhail Bakhtin to Henri Lefebvre and beyond, many of whom are often read as anti-utopian figures, the essays argue that it is possible to locate utopian promises buried deep within the embodied rituals, practices and symbolic forms associated with everyday existence, in a manner that reveals the essential openness of the present day to momentous future change.
%K transformation, promises, rituals
%G English