Imaginary Communities: Utopia, The Nation, And The Spatial Histories Of Modernity
Imaginary Communities: Utopia, The Nation, And The Spatial Histories Of Modernity
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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

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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
Book Specifications
ISBN-13
9780520228290
Language
English
Binding
Paper Back
Publisher
University of California Press
Publishing Date
2002-06-04
Total Pages
323