Introduction

Why talk about utopia in a journal dedicated to critical thinking? In fact, the reasons are plenty. The first one, which is always worth reminding, is that we still have to resist the negative overtone of the word. This overtone sweeps away the rich history of utopia and its many significations. Le...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Berdet, Marc, Broca, Sébastien, López, Carlos Pérez
Materialtyp: Article ou chapitre numérique
Språk:Anglais
Publicerad: Anthropology + Materialism 2016
Länkar:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sammanfattning:Why talk about utopia in a journal dedicated to critical thinking? In fact, the reasons are plenty. The first one, which is always worth reminding, is that we still have to resist the negative overtone of the word. This overtone sweeps away the rich history of utopia and its many significations. Let us then start by reaffirming that utopia equates neither with the project to impose an oppressive society (the Stalinist “utopia” from yesterday, the Jihadist “utopia” from today), nor with the u...