The Alternative to Utopia Is Myopia

The Alternative to Utopia Is Myopia

This essay, written in memory of Erik Olin Wright (1947–2019), considers Wright’s project of constructing and identifying real utopias. It confronts a tension in Wright’s oeuvre, the question of the knowledge by means of which reformers can identify the utopias that ground the really existing real u...

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Veröffentlicht in:Politics & society 2020-12, Vol.48 (4), p.567-584
1. Verfasser: Sousa Santos, Boaventura de
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Sprache:eng
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Myopia
Utopias
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Zusammenfassung:This essay, written in memory of Erik Olin Wright (1947–2019), considers Wright’s project of constructing and identifying real utopias. It confronts a tension in Wright’s oeuvre, the question of the knowledge by means of which reformers can identify the utopias that ground the really existing real utopias.
ISSN:0032-3292
1552-7514
DOI:10.1177/0032329220962644