Rethinking Utopia: Interdisciplinary Approaches

by Volkan Gül (Contribution by), Ramazan Güresci (Contribution by), Hayrettin Özler (Contribution by), Süleyman Sidal (Contribution by), Ebru Deniz Ozan (Contribution by)

Overview

The authors of the book believe that utopia is a multidimensional concept, hence best understood with a multidisciplinary perspective. The book seeks utopian thinking in political theory (in Kant and Derrida), international law, populism, Turkish Islamism, and it dilates on the themes of modernism and classless society in the selected utopias.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781666906950
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/21/2022
Series:	Political Theory for Today
Pages:	132
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Ebru Deniz Ozan is currently a faculty member at Kütahya Dumlupınar University, Department of Political Science and International Relations.

Table of Contents

Part I

Chapter 1: Utopia as Free Play by Hayrettin Özler

Chapter 2: The Search for a Better Place: Populist and Utopian Redemption by Volkan Gül

Chapter 3: Utopia and The Law of Humanity: An International Humanitarian Law Perspective by Ramazan Güreşci

Part II

Chapter 4: Modernism in Thomas More’s Utopia by Süleyman Sıdal

Chapter 5: The Classless Society in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Utopia: Always Coming Home by Ebru Deniz Ozan

Chapter 6: Turkish Islamism and Utopia: Collating the Works of Necip Fazil Kisakürek, Sezai Karakoç, and Ismet Özel by Ertuğrul Zengin

Editorial Reviews

As a well-known saying in the field of utopian studies, one person’s utopia is another one’s dystopia; and if you want to lessen the gap between the two, it is equally important to concentrate on the necessity of a kind of utopian thinking. An equally broad and egalitarian utopian imaginary can only overcome the dystopian reality. In this contemporary dystopian world in which we all live, studies and critical thought on utopian politics are a necessity for achieving a better world. With Ozan's far-reaching edition, readers will get involved with the relationship between political theory, social class, international law, and utopian literature. In every section of this book, the writers continually remind us that if you do not have a utopia, you are destined to live in your own dystopia. A must-read primer for anyone thinking of the possibility of a better tomorrow.

Sinan Yildirmaz

An updated and original revision of the utopian theoretical tradition.

Aylin Topal

As a well-known saying in the field of utopian studies, one person’s utopia is another one’s dystopia; and if you want to lessen the gap between the two, it is equally important to concentrate on the necessity of a kind of utopian thinking. An equally broad and egalitarian utopian imaginary can only overcome the dystopian reality. In this contemporary dystopian world in which we all live, studies and critical thought on utopian politics are a necessity for achieving a better world. With Ozan's far-reaching edition, readers will get involved with the relationship between political theory, social class, international law, and utopian literature. In every section of this book, the writers continually remind us that if you do not have a utopia, you are destined to live in your own dystopia. A must-read primer for anyone thinking of the possibility of a better tomorrow.

Sinan Yıldırmaz

This interdisciplinary collection will be useful to scholars of utopian and dystopian studies, speculative fiction, and critical future studies, as well as those interested in utopianism, alternative world systems, sf, speculative narratives, and political theory. Its authors once more remind us of the urgent need to rethink utopia in ways that have strong potential to indicate “new possibilities to us” through “other possible societies”

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