Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity - Couverture souple

Wegner, Phillip E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520228294 ISBN 13 : 9780520228290

Editeur : University of California Press, 2002

Synopsis

Drawing from literary history, social theory, and political critique, this far-reaching study explores the utopian narrative as a medium for understanding the social space of the modern nation-state. Considering the narrative utopia from its earliest manifestation in Thomas More's sixteenth-century work Utopia to some of the most influential utopias of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book is an astute study of a literary genre as well as a nuanced dialectical meditation on the history of utopian thinking as a quintessential history of modernity.

As he unravels the dialectics at work in the utopian narrative, Wegner gives an ambitious synthetic discussion of theories of modernity, considering and evaluating the ideas of writers such as Ernst Bloch, Louis Marin, Gilles Deleuze, Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Henri Lefebvre, Paul de Man, Karl Mannheim, Mikhail Bakhtin, Jürgen Habermas, Slavoj Zizek, and Homi Bhabha.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Phillip E. Wegner is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520228294
• ISBN 13: 9780520228290
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 324
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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