The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed

by Davis, Laurence; Stillman, Peter; Burns, Tony; Curtis, Claire; Davis, Laurence; Elliot, Winter; Ferns, Chris; Hamner, Everett; Le Guin, Ursula K.; Plaw, Avery; Reynolds, Andrew; Rigsby, Ellen; Rodgers, Jennifer; Sabia, Dan; Somay, Bülent; Spencer, Douglas

• ISBN13: 9780739110867
• ISBN10: 0739110861
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-19
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

The Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz as 'The most striking description I know of the seductions--and snares--of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society.' To date, however, the radical social, cultu

Table of Contents

Editorial Note	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Open-Ended Utopian Politics
The Dynamic and Revolutionary Utopia of Ursula K. Le Guin	p. 3
Worlds Apart: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Possibility of Method	p. 37
Post-Consumerist Politics
The Dispossessed as Ecological Political Theory	p. 55
Ursula K. Le Guin, Herbert Marcuse, and the Fate of Utopia in the Postmodern	p. 75
The Alien Comes Home: Getting Past the Twin Planets of Possession and Austerity in Le Guin's The Dispossessed	p. 95
Anarchist Politics
Individual and Community in Le Guin's The Dispossessed	p. 111
The Need for Walls: Privacy, Community, and Freedom in The Dispossessed	p. 129
Breaching Invisible Walls: Individual Anarchy in The Dispossessed	p. 149
Temporal Politics
Time and the Measure of the Political Animal	p. 167
Fulfillment as a Function of Time, or the Ambiguous Process of Utopia	p. 181
Science and Politics in The Dispossessed: Le Guin and the "Science Wars"	p. 195
Revolutionary Politics
The Gap in the Wall: Partnership, Physics, and Politics in The Dispossessed	p. 219
From Ambiguity to Self-Reflexivity: Revolutionizing Fantasy Space	p. 233
Future Conditional or Future Perfect? The Dispossed and Permanent Revolution	p. 249
Open-Ended Utopian Politics
Ambiguous Choices: Skepticism as a Grounding for Utopia	p. 265
Empty Hands: Communication, Pluralism, and Community in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed	p. 283
A Response, by Ansible, from Tau Ceti	p. 305
Further Reading	p. 309
Index	p. 311
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