Anarchism and Utopianism

This collection of original essays examines the relationship between anarchism and utopianism, exploring the intersections and overlaps between these two fields of study and providing novel perspectives for the analysis of both. The book opens with an historical and philosophical survey of the subject matter and goes on to examine antecedents of the anarchist literary utopia; anti-capitalism and the anarchist utopian literary imagination; free love as an expression of anarchist politics and utopian desire; and revolutionary practice. Contributors explore the creative interchange of anarchism and utopianism in both theory and modern political practice; debunk some widely-held myths about the inherent utopianism of anarchy; uncover the anarchistic influences active in the history of utopian thought; and provide fresh perspectives on contemporary academic and activist debates about ecology, alternatives to capitalism, revolutionary theory and practice, and the politics of art, gender and sexuality. Scholars in both anarchist and utopian studies have for many years acknowledged a relationship between these two areas, but this is the first time that the historical and philosophical dimensions of the relationship have been investigated as a primary focus for research, and its political significance given full and detailed consideration.

ISBN 0719079349   Pages 304 ISBN13 9780719079344 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Manchester University Press   Weight (grammes) 612 Imprint Manchester University Press   Published in Manchester Format Hardback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 30 Nov 2009   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 335.02   Spine width (mm) 30 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Tertiary education, Undergraduate, Postgraduate

		Introduction by Laurence Davis		1
Pt. I		Historical and philosophical overview
1		Anarchy and the dialectic of utopia by John P. Clark		9
Pt. II		Antecedents of the anarchist literary utopia
2		Daoism as utopian or accommodationist: radical Daoism re-examined in light of the Guodian manuscripts by John A. Rapp		33
3		Diderot's Supplement au voyage de Bougainville: steps towards an anarchist utopia by Peter G. Stillman		53
Pt. III		Anti-capitalism and the anarchist utopian literary imagination
4		Everyone an artist: art, labour, anarchy, and utopia by Laurence Davis		73
5		Anarchist powers: B. Traven, Pierre Clastres, and the question of utopia by Nicholas Spencer		99
6		Utopia, anarchism and the political implications of emotions by Gisela Heffes		118
7		Anarchy in the archives: notes from the ruins of Sydney and Melbourne by Brian Greenspan		131
Pt. IV		Free love: anarchist politics and utopian desire
8		Speaking desire: anarchism and free love as utopian performance in fin de siecle Britain by Judy Greenway		153
9		Visions of the future: reproduction, revolution, and regeneration in American anarchist utopian fiction by Brigitte Koenig		171
10		Intimate fellows: utopia and chaos in the early post-Stonewall gay liberation manifestos by Dominic Ording		187
Pt. V		Rethinking revolutionary practices
11		Anarchism, utopianism and the politics of emancipation by Saul Newman		207
12		Anarchism and the politics of utopia by Ruth Kinna		221
13		'The space now possible': anarchist education as utopian hope by Judith Suissa		241
14		Utopia in contemporary anarchism by Uri Gordon		260
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