Main entry:

Abensour, Miguel, author.

Title & Author:

Utopia from Thomas More to Walter Benjamin / Miguel Abensour ; translated by Raymond N. MacKenzie.

Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : Univocal Publishing, [2017].

Description:

111 pages ; 20 cm

Notes:
Originally published in French as: L'Utopie de Thomas Thomas More à Walter Benjamin. Paris : Sens & Tonka, 2000.
Translation of: L'Utopie de Thomas More à Walter Benjamin.
Includes bibliographical references.
Avant-propos -- Thomas More, or, the oblique path. The crisis of interpretation ; A forgotten art of writing ; The articulation of the book "and of the Book" ; First sequence -- Walter Benjamin, the sentry of dreams. The exposé of 1935 ; Fourier, or the arcades ; The controversy with Adorno ; The exposé of 1939 -- Conclusion.
Translated from the French.
Translated from French.
Translation of: Abensour, Miguel L'utopie de Thomas More à Walter Benjamin Paris : Sens & Tonka, 2000 9782910170882 (OCoLC)466755966

Summary:

"Utopia poses a question. Not simply in the sense of a problem to be resolved and at the same time eliminated . . . but in the sense that, within the economy of the human condition, utopia, the aim of social alterity of all social otherness is ceaselessly being reborn, coming back to life despite all the blows rained down upon it, as if human resistance had taken up residence within it." For the French philosopher Miguel Abensour, the fictional genre of utopia has provided thinkers and artists a fertile ground to explore for the past 500 years, both as a way to imagine new emancipatory practices of shared existence and as a tyrannical imposition of power. Here, Abensour's project is to examine the idea of utopia in two different but powerful moments in its trajectory: first, utopia's beginning, when Thomas More sought a path for justice through a world in transformation, and second, when utopia faced its greatest danger, the moment that Walter Benjamin called "catastrophe."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781945414008 (paperback)
1945414006 (paperback)

Subject:

More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535. Utopia.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
Utopia (More, Thomas, Saint)
Utopias.
Utopies.

Form/genre:

Utopian fiction.

Added entries:

MacKenzie, Raymond N., translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294751
Call No.: BIB 240591
Status: Available