Overview
- Explores the future-oriented dimension of contemporary political thought, using the methodological lens of utopianism
- Demonstrates how this adds to our understanding of contemporary political currents, and demonstrates the utility of a utopian lens or ‘optic’ for the human sciences
- Deals with complex theoretical questions with considerable clarity and accessibility
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This book examines the utopian dimension of contemporary social and political thought. Arguing for a utopian optic for the human sciences, el-Ojeili claims that major transformations of the utopian constellation have occurred since the end of the twentieth century.
Following a survey of major utopian shifts in the modern period, el-Ojeili focuses on three spaces within today’s utopian constellation. At the liberal centre, we see a splintering effect, particularly after the global financial crisis of 2008: a contingent neo-liberalism, a neo-Keynesian turn, and a liberalism of fear. At the far-Right margin, we see the consolidation of post-fascism, a combination of “the future in the past”, elements of the post-modern present, and appeals to a novel future. Finally, at the far-Left, a new communism has emerged, with novel positions on resistance, maps of power, and a contemporary variant of the Left’s artistic critique.
TheUtopian Constellation will be of interest to scholars and students across the human sciences with an interest in utopian studies, ideological and discourse analysis, the sociology of knowledge, and the study of political culture.
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Book Title: The Utopian Constellation
Book Subtitle: Future-Oriented Social and Political Thought Today
Authors: Chamsy el-Ojeili
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32516-9
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32515-2Published: 18 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32518-3Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32516-9Published: 18 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 161
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Theory, Political Theory, Political Sociology, Knowledge - Discourse, Epistemology