{"product_id":"utopia-from-thomas-more-to-miguel-abensour-9781945414008","title":"Utopia from Thomas More to Walter Benjamin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Utopia poses a question. Not simply in the sense of a problem to be resolved and at the same time eliminated . . . but in the sense that, within the economy of the human condition, utopia, the aim of social alterity--of all social otherness--is ceaselessly being reborn, coming back to life despite all the blows rained down upon it, as if human resistance had taken up residence within it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the French philosopher Miguel Abensour, the fictional genre of utopia has provided thinkers and artists a fertile ground to explore for the past 500 years, both as a way to imagine new emancipatory practices of shared existence and as a tyrannical imposition of power. Here, Abensour's project is to examine the idea of utopia in two different but powerful moments in its trajectory: first, utopia's beginning, when Thomas More sought a path for justice through a world in transformation, and second, when utopia faced its greatest danger, the moment that Walter Benjamin called \"catastrophe.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Miguel Abensour\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1945414006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945414008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Univocal Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.30d","brand":"Miguel Abensour","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46807026139391,"sku":"9781945414008","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bdafc764-2157-47ef-8512-21511aceb55f.jpg?v=1745378347","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/utopia-from-thomas-more-to-miguel-abensour-9781945414008","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}