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Defined by a Hollow
Darko Suvin
其他書名
Essays on Utopia, Science Fiction and Political Epistemology
出版
Peter Lang
, 2010
主題
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / American / General
Literary Criticism / Science Fiction & Fantasy
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General
Philosophy / General
Philosophy / Epistemology
Philosophy / Political
Social Science / General
Social Science / Sociology / General
ISBN
3039114034
9783039114030
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=IfTSIsngRHcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
This volume incorporates Darko Suvin's thinking on utopian horizons in fiction and on eutopian and dystopian readings of historical reality since the 1970s. While the focus is on the United States and the United Kingdom, the essays also draw on French, German and Russian sources. The book is composed of eighteen chapters, including four sets of poems. The chapters include heretic reflections on utopian fiction, science fiction and utopian studies, explorations of dystopias, and epistemological examinations of political standpoint. Throughout, plebeian history is the stance from which all the author's value judgements are made. The essays and poems engage with the empirical world and identify areas of hope. In a dark dystopian time, they reaffirm eutopia, the radically better place to be striven for in every here and now.