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Book SynopsisThe first book-length treatment of the relationship between anarchism and utopianism reveals the anarchistic influences active in the history of utopian thought. It provides fresh perspectives on academic and activist debates about ecology, alternatives to capitalism, revolutionary theory and practice, and the politics of art, gender and sexuality.
Table of ContentsContents list
Notes on contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction – Laurence Davis
Part I Historical and philosophical overview
1. Anarchism and the dialectic of utopia – John P. Clark
Part II Antecedents of the anarchist literary utopia
2. Daoism as utopian or accommodationist: radical Daoism reexamined in
light of the Guodian Manuscripts – John A. Rapp
3. Diderot's *Supplément au voyage de Bougainville*: steps towards an
anarchist utopia – Peter G. Stillman
Part III Anti-capitalism and the anarchist utopian literary imagination
4. Everyone an artist: art, labour, anarchy, and utopia – Laurence Davis
5. Anarchist powers: B. Traven, Pierre Clastres, and the question of utopia – Nicholas Spencer
6. Utopia, anarchism and the political implications of emotions – Gisela Heffes
7. Anarchy in the archives: notes from the ruins of Sydney and Melbourne – Brian Greenspan
Part IV Free love: anarchist politics and utopian desire
8. Speaking desire: anarchism and free love as utopian performance in
fin de siècle Britain – Judy Greenway
9. Visions of the future: reproduction, revolution and regeneration in
American anarchist utopian fiction – Brigitte Koenig
10. Intimate fellows: utopia and chaos in the early post-Stonewall gay
liberation manifestos – Dominic Ording
Part V Rethinking revolutionary practice
11. Anarchism, utopianism and the politics of emancipation – Saul Newman
12. Anarchism and the politics of utopia – Ruth Kinna
13. 'The space now possible': anarchist education as utopian hope – Judith Suissa
14. Utopia in contemporary anarchism – Uri Gordon
Index
