Exploring the Utopian Impulse
Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice
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- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2007. 398 pp., 23 ill.
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the editor
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Exploring Utopia
- The Archive of the Feet: Memory, Place, and Utopia
- Utopia and Memory
- Memory, Embodiment, and Place
- Remembering Hammersmith, Tracing Utopia
- Works Cited
- “Towards Justice to Come”: Derrida and Utopian Justice
- Works Cited
- Truth, Temporality, and Theorizing Resistance
- Truth
- Time
- Modern Time
- That “Other” Time
- The Untimely
- Works Cited
- Three Archetypes for the Clarification of Utopian Theorizing
- Clarifications
- The Universal Voice in Utopian Theory
- Decoding Universals into Temporal Particulars
- Temporal Particulars: Three Archetypes for the Clarification of Utopian Theorizing
- Distinctions
- Works Cited
- Utopia and the Memory of Religion
- Works Cited
- The Fractured Image: Plato, the Greeks, and the Figure of the Ideal City
- The Duplicities of Oneness
- From Philosophy without a City to the City without Philosophy
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Works Cited
- Technological Utopia/Dystopia in the Plates of the Encyclopédie
- Works Cited
- The Party of Utopia: Utopian Fiction and the Politics of Readership 1880–1900
- Works Cited
- H.G. Wells’s First Utopia: Materiality and Portent
- Works Cited
- Immanence and the Utopian Impulse. On Philippe Jaccottet’s Readings of Æ and Robert Musil
- Works Cited
- Who’s Afraid of Dystopia? William Gibson’s Neuromancer and Fredric Jameson’s Writing on Utopia and Science Fiction
- Works Cited
- Paradise Lost: The Destruction of Utopia in The Beach
- Works Cited
- Across Time and Space: The Utopian Impulses of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker
- Music
- Noir
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- “One loves the girl for what she is, and the boy for what he promises to be”: Gender Discourse in Ernst Bloch’s Das Prinzip Hoffnung
- Works Cited
- Rhyming Hope and History in the “Fifth Province”
- The Crane Bag and the Dis-Positions of the “Fifth Province”
- The Cure at Troy and the Temporal and Ethical Dimensions of the “Fifth Province”
- Translating a Utopian Idea
- Works Cited
- The Chartist Land Plan: An English Dream, an Irish Nightmare
- Works Cited
- The League of Nations as a Utopian Project: The Labour Party Advisory Committee on International Questions and the Search for a New World Order
- The Question of Global Utopia
- Disarmament, Arbitration, and Sanctions
- The Rise of the Dictators and the Weaknesses of League Security
- Works Cited
- Beyond Utopia? The Knowledge Society and the Third Way
- Politics beyond Utopia
- Making Ideology History: Modernization without Telos
- Infinite Knowledge, Infinite Justice
- Modernization as Harmony: Politics of Reconciliation
- Creating the Knowledge Subject
- Works Cited
- Witchcrafting Selves: Remaking Person and Community in a Neo-Pagan Utopian Scene
- A Utopian Experiment
- Neo-Paganism, A History of Adaptation
- A Pagan Scene
- Structural Functionalism, and a New Reading
- Culture, Politics, and Utopia
- Works Cited
- From Shukri Mustafa to the Ashwaiyat: Utopianism in Egyptian Islamism
- Works Cited
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Ralahine
Paradise Lost: The Destruction of Utopia in The Beach
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← 216 | 217 → PAULA MURPHY
Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world […],
Sing heavenly muse.
—John Milton, Paradise Lost
In his introduction to The Principle of Hope, Ernst Bloch states that “thinking means venturing beyond. […] Real venturing beyond knows and activates the tendency which is inherent in history and which proceeds dialectically. Primarily, everyone lives in the future, because they strive, past things only come later, and as yet genuine present is almost never there at all” (4). This impetus to seek out a better future is the driving force behind any utopia, whether ancient or modern; but it is also a feature of the theories of two prominent poststructuralists, Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan. On the surface, the incorporation of these writers into a discussion on Utopia may appear problematic, as Lacan has often been described as nihilistic and dystopian. Equally, Derrida’s relentless deconstruction of signification and his critique of its inherent hierarchies seem to leave little room for a utopia of any sort. However, like Bloch, Derrida argues that humanity is unavoidably directed towards the future: “this question arrives, if it arrives, it questions with regard to what will come in the future-to-come. Turned toward the future, going toward it, it also comes from it, proceeds from [provident de] the future” (xix). In this extract from Specters of Marx, Derrida is referring to the question...
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Or login to access all content.- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the editor
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Exploring Utopia
- The Archive of the Feet: Memory, Place, and Utopia
- Utopia and Memory
- Memory, Embodiment, and Place
- Remembering Hammersmith, Tracing Utopia
- Works Cited
- “Towards Justice to Come”: Derrida and Utopian Justice
- Works Cited
- Truth, Temporality, and Theorizing Resistance
- Truth
- Time
- Modern Time
- That “Other” Time
- The Untimely
- Works Cited
- Three Archetypes for the Clarification of Utopian Theorizing
- Clarifications
- The Universal Voice in Utopian Theory
- Decoding Universals into Temporal Particulars
- Temporal Particulars: Three Archetypes for the Clarification of Utopian Theorizing
- Distinctions
- Works Cited
- Utopia and the Memory of Religion
- Works Cited
- The Fractured Image: Plato, the Greeks, and the Figure of the Ideal City
- The Duplicities of Oneness
- From Philosophy without a City to the City without Philosophy
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Works Cited
- Technological Utopia/Dystopia in the Plates of the Encyclopédie
- Works Cited
- The Party of Utopia: Utopian Fiction and the Politics of Readership 1880–1900
- Works Cited
- H.G. Wells’s First Utopia: Materiality and Portent
- Works Cited
- Immanence and the Utopian Impulse. On Philippe Jaccottet’s Readings of Æ and Robert Musil
- Works Cited
- Who’s Afraid of Dystopia? William Gibson’s Neuromancer and Fredric Jameson’s Writing on Utopia and Science Fiction
- Works Cited
- Paradise Lost: The Destruction of Utopia in The Beach
- Works Cited
- Across Time and Space: The Utopian Impulses of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker
- Music
- Noir
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- “One loves the girl for what she is, and the boy for what he promises to be”: Gender Discourse in Ernst Bloch’s Das Prinzip Hoffnung
- Works Cited
- Rhyming Hope and History in the “Fifth Province”
- The Crane Bag and the Dis-Positions of the “Fifth Province”
- The Cure at Troy and the Temporal and Ethical Dimensions of the “Fifth Province”
- Translating a Utopian Idea
- Works Cited
- The Chartist Land Plan: An English Dream, an Irish Nightmare
- Works Cited
- The League of Nations as a Utopian Project: The Labour Party Advisory Committee on International Questions and the Search for a New World Order
- The Question of Global Utopia
- Disarmament, Arbitration, and Sanctions
- The Rise of the Dictators and the Weaknesses of League Security
- Works Cited
- Beyond Utopia? The Knowledge Society and the Third Way
- Politics beyond Utopia
- Making Ideology History: Modernization without Telos
- Infinite Knowledge, Infinite Justice
- Modernization as Harmony: Politics of Reconciliation
- Creating the Knowledge Subject
- Works Cited
- Witchcrafting Selves: Remaking Person and Community in a Neo-Pagan Utopian Scene
- A Utopian Experiment
- Neo-Paganism, A History of Adaptation
- A Pagan Scene
- Structural Functionalism, and a New Reading
- Culture, Politics, and Utopia
- Works Cited
- From Shukri Mustafa to the Ashwaiyat: Utopianism in Egyptian Islamism
- Works Cited
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Ralahine