{"product_id":"concrete-utopianism-9780823299874","title":"Concrete Utopianism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough a critique of Left realism, culturalism, and pessimism from the standpoint of heterodox Marxism and Black radicalism, Gary Wilder insists that we place questions of solidarity and temporality at the center of Left political thinking. He makes a bold case for embracing a concrete utopian politics of the possible-impossible adequate to current planetary crises.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface \u003c\/i\u003e| ix\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: The Opposite of Pessimism Is Not Optimism | 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eI. Refiguring Politics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1.\u003c\/b\u003e The Possible- Impossible: Dialectical Optics and Uncanny Refractions (Here, Now, Us) | 17\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e Concrete Utopianism and Critical Internationalism: Refusing Left Realism | 35\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3. \u003c\/b\u003ePracticing Translation: Beyond Left Culturalism | 62\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4. \u003c\/b\u003eOf Pessimism and Presentism: Against Left Melancholy | 86\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntermezzo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5. \u003c\/b\u003eSolidarity | 109\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6.\u003c\/b\u003e Anticipation | 122\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eII. Unthinking History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e7. \u003c\/b\u003eTime as a Real Abstraction: Clock- Time, Nonsynchronism, Untimeliness | 139\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e8. \u003c\/b\u003eDialectic of Past and Future | 157\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e9.\u003c\/b\u003e It’s Still Happening Again: Ontology, Hauntology, and Ellison’s Dialectics of Invisibility | 191\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e10.\u003c\/b\u003e A Prophetic Vision of the Past: Glissant’s Poetics of Nonhistory | 221\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIII. Anticipating Futures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e11.\u003c\/b\u003e The World We Wish to See | 263\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e| 291\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e | 295\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e| 363\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406168138071,"sku":"9780823299874","price":26.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823299874.jpg?v=1730494766","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/concrete-utopianism-9780823299874","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}