Retrotopia Contributor(s): Bauman, Zygmunt (Author) |
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ISBN: 1509515321 ISBN-13: 9781509515325 Publisher: Polity Press OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Utopias |
Dewey: 335.02 |
LCCN: 2016029145 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.55 lbs) 180 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state--a state that Thomas More, writing five centuries ago, tied to a topos, a fixed place, a land, an island, a sovereign state under a wise and benevolent ruler. But while we have lost our faith in utopias of all hues, the human aspiration that made this vision so compelling has not died. Instead it is re-emerging today as a vision focused not on the future but on the past, not on a future-to-be-created but on an abandoned and undead past that we could call retrotopia. |