$43.00
(available in store)
Summary:
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(...)
Utopia, from Tomas More to Walter Benjamin
Actions:
Price:
$43.00
(available in store)
Summary:
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.”
Critical Theory
books
$19.95
(available to order)
Summary:
"Comme la conjonction du sous-titre de cet essai l'indique, l'idée est de poser et d'explorer une relation entre certaines formes d'architecture et les expériences totalitaires de notre siècle. C'est marquer d'emblée une distance à l'égard des stratégies de dissociation ou de disjonction entre deux ordres de phénomènes." Miguel Abensour
De la compacité : architectures et régimes totalitaires
Actions:
Price:
$19.95
(available to order)
Summary:
"Comme la conjonction du sous-titre de cet essai l'indique, l'idée est de poser et d'explorer une relation entre certaines formes d'architecture et les expériences totalitaires de notre siècle. C'est marquer d'emblée une distance à l'égard des stratégies de dissociation ou de disjonction entre deux ordres de phénomènes." Miguel Abensour
books
November 1997, Paris
small format