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  • Invoking Hope

    Theory and Utopia in Dark Times

    by Phillip E. Wegner ...
    An appeal for the importance of theory, utopia, and close consideration of our contemporary dark timesWhat does any particular theory allow us to do? What is the value of doing so? And who benefits? In Invoking Hope, Phillip E. Wegner argues for the undiminished importance of the practices of theory, utopia, and a deep and critical reading of our current situation of what Bertolt Brecht refers to ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Late Theory

    Fredric Jameson, or The Persistence of Reading

    by Phillip E. Wegner ...
    A bold, dialectic engagement with Fredric Jameson’s thoughtFredric Jameson (1934–2024) is widely regarded as the most influential literary and cultural theorist of the past fifty years. The culmination of more than three decades of sustained engagement with Jameson’s work, Late Theory offers a critical response to his late writings, namely the final volumes of his “Poetics of Social Forms,” to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Figures of Utopia

    Literature, Politics, Philosophy

    by Phillip E. Wegner, Tom Moylan, Michael G. Kelly, Joachim Fischer, Raffaella Baccolini, Antonis Balasopoulos ...
    Series Book 39 - Ralahine Utopian Studies
    This volume examines the concept of the utopic figure, focusing on the textual procedures through which utopian texts negotiate the limits of the imaginable. Drawing from literary theory and criticism, political philosophy, social history, cartography and geography, urban studies and visual culture, it discusses utopian figuration in relation to classical, early modern, and (post)modern contexts, ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Life between Two Deaths, 1989-2001

    U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties

    by Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson, Phillip E. Wegner ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Through virtuoso readings of significant works of American film, television, and fiction, Phillip E. Wegner demonstrates that the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 fostered a unique consciousness and represented a moment of immense historical possibilities now at risk of being forgotten in the midst of the “war on terror.” ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Shockwaves of Possibility

    Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia

    by Phillip E. Wegner ...
    Series Book 15 - Ralahine Utopian Studies
    Shockwaves of Possibility explores the deep utopianism of one of the most significant modern cultural practices: science fiction. The author contends that utopianism is not simply a motif in SF, but rather is fundamental to its narrative dynamics. Drawing upon a rich array of theory and criticism in SF and utopian studies, the book opens with a global periodizing history that shows the ... Read more

    $63.89 USD