The Task of Utopia: A Pragmatist and Feminist Perspective - Softcover

McKenna, Erin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074251319X ISBN 13: 9780742513198

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001

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Book by McKenna Erin

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Erin McKenna has convincingly combined two approaches to utopia, pragmatism and feminism, that are unlikely companions. In doing so she has provided insightful readings of both feminist utopias and John Dewey as well as giving us an interesting new approach to utopianism. * Utopian Studies * In The Task of Utopia Erin McKenna reminds us how valuable utopias can be in structuring moral motivations and energies. The Task of Utopia signals a new level of maturity in feminist pragmatism. * Journal of Speculative Philosophy * "In The Task of Utopia, Erin McKenna writes imaginatively about imagination, constructively about the possibilities and forms of criticism, realistically about hope, and compellingly about the task of envisioning human communities worthy of human commitment. McKenna defends the utopian imagination with a sharp sense of the deep suspicions currently surrounding it, yet her utopianism is clear-eyed: it reckons with the actualities of an irrevocable history as much as it projects the possibilities of a future different from the past. Thus, her processive, pragmatist, and feminist orientation to social philosophy is itself a sign of hope, and a feat of imagination." -- Vincent Colapietro, Pennsylvania State University

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Are utopian visions viable in the 21st century? Utopia has been equated, for many, with totalitarianism. Such visions are not acceptable. The loss of utopian visions altogether is also unacceptable. This book argues that American Pragmatism and Feminist theory can combine to provide a process model of utopia that pushes to build a flexible future that helps us deal with change, conflict, and diversity without resorting to fixed ends.

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• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 074251319X
• ISBN 13: 9780742513198
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 190