The Revival of Political Imagination

Explores an emerging multidisciplinary topic and methodological perspective.Provides a number of new perspectives to the practical uses of utopia, showing how social criticism, collective action and democracy will suffer, if utopias as a mode of social thought are lost.Discusses both traditional and contemporary utopias and various forms of expression of utopian hope from literature to social science and cultural practices. A combination of contemporary criticism and political science, advancing an emerging wave of political thought, which can be called a revival of utopianism.