{"product_id":"re-situating-utopia-9789004401198","title":"Re-Situating Utopia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Re-Situating Utopia Matthew Nicholson argues that international law and international legal theory are dominated by a ‘blueprint’ utopianism that presents international law as the means of achieving a better global future. Contesting the dominance of this blueprintism, Nicholson argues that this approach makes international law into what philosopher Louis Marin describes as a “degenerate utopia” – a fantastical means of trapping thought and practice within contemporary social and political conditions, blocking any possibility that those conditions might be transcended. As an alternative, Nicholson argues for an iconoclastic international legal utopianism – Utopia not as a ‘blueprint’ for a better future, operating within the confines of existing social and political reality, but as a means of seeking to negate and exit from that reality – as the only way to maintain the idea that international law offers a path towards a truly better future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRe-Situating Utopia   Matthew Nicholson    Abstract   Keywords   Acknowledgements   Introduction: Blueprints and Iconoclasm   Part 1: Iconoclastic Utopianism, or “Exiting the Series”   Part 2: Blueprints   Part 3: Utopia, “Degenerate Utopia,” and Disneyland   Part 4: Towards “World Other”   Bibliography","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210776731991,"sku":"9789004401198","price":71.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/re-situating-utopia-9789004401198","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}