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The Task of Utopia
eBook - A Pragmatist and Feminist Perspective
ISBN/EAN: 9781461666608
Umbreit-Nr.: 2126667
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 192 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 13.11.2001
Auflage: 1/2001
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- At their best, both American pragmatism and utopianism are about hope. Both encourage people to think about the future as a guide to understanding the past and forming the present. Just as pragmatism has often been misunderstood as valueless instrumentalism, utopianism has been limited to dreams of a static perfect world. In this book, Erin McKenna argues that utopian vision informed by pragmatism results in a process model of utopia that can help form the future based on critical intelligence. Using John Dewey's works with feminist theory and literature, McKenna develops this pragmatist feminist model of utopia.
- Kurztext
- 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.
- Autorenportrait
- Erin McKenna is associate professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Pacific Lutheran University.