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Book Summary
Drawing from literary history, social theory, and political critique, this
far-reaching study explores the utopian narrative as a medium for understanding
the social space of the modern nation-state. Considering the narrative utopia
from its earliest manifestation in Thomas More's sixteenth-century work "Utopia
"to some of the most influential utopias of the late nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, this book is an astute study of a literary genre as well as a nuanced
dialectical meditation on the history of utopian thinking as a quintessential
history of modernity.
As he unravels the dialectics at work in the utopian narrative, Wegner gives an
ambitious synthetic discussion of theories of modernity, considering
ISBN-13
9780520228290
Language
English
Binding
Paper Back
Publisher
University of California Press
Publishing Date
2002-06-04
Total Pages
323
Imaginary Communities: Utopia, The Nation, And The Spatial Histories Of Modernity
Drawing from literary history, social theory, and political critique, this
far-reaching study explores the utopian narrative as a medium for understanding
the social space of the modern nation-state. Considering the narrative utopia
from its earliest manifestation in Thomas More's sixteenth-century work "Utopia
"to some of the most influential utopias of the late nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, this book is an astute study of a literary genre as well as a nuanced
dialectical meditation on the history of utopian thinking as a quintessential
history of modernity.
As he unravels the dialectics at work in the utopian narrative, Wegner gives an
ambitious synthetic discussion of theories of modernity, considering