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- Book Title
- Utopia, Limited : Romanticism and Adjustment
- Publication Name
- Utopia, Limited
- Title
- Utopia, Limited
- Subtitle
- Romanticism and Adjustment
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0674434579
- EAN
- 9780674434578
- ISBN
- 9780674434578
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Political Science
- Release Year
- 2015
- Release Date
- 09/03/2015
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Topic
- General, Aesthetics, Political, Semiotics & Theory, Subjects & Themes / General, Utopias
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 19.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 280 Pages
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What is utopia if not a perfect world, impossible to achieve? Anahid Nersessian reveals a basic misunderstanding lurking behind that ideal. In Utopia, Limited she enlists William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Keats, and others to redefine utopianism as a positive investment in limitations. Linking the ecological imperative to live within our means to the aesthetic philosophy of the Romantic period, Nersessian's theory of utopia promises not an unconditionally perfect world but a better world where we get less than we hoped, but more than we had. For the Romantic writers, the project of utopia and the project of art were identical. Blake believed that without limits, a work of art would be no more than a set of squiggles on a page, or a string of nonsensical letters and sounds. And without boundaries, utopia is merely an extension of the world as we know it, but blighted by a hunger for having it all. Nersessian proposes that we think about utopia as the Romantics thought about aesthetics--as a way to bind and thereby emancipate human political potential within a finite space. Grounded in an intellectual tradition that begins with Immanuel Kant and includes Theodor Adorno and Northrop Frye, Utopia, Limited lays out a program of "adjustment" that applies the lessons of art to the rigors of life on an imperiled planet. It is a sincere response to environmental devastation, offering us a road map through a restricted future.
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Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674434579
ISBN-13
9780674434578
eBay Product ID (ePID)
204213216
Product Key Features
Book Title
Utopia, Limited : Romanticism and Adjustment
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, Aesthetics, Political, Semiotics & Theory, Subjects & Themes / General, Utopias
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Political Science
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
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Pn56.U8n47 2015
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Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment is a remarkable book with few obvious precedents. It renders the service--or perhaps throws down the gauntlet--of prompting, with incisive new theoretical equipment, a reexamination of received ideas about "utopia" and "Romanticism" (though it is hardly "limited" to these). Above all, Utopia, Limited will spur critics to reread texts within and beyond Romanticism to see if they too register something like the ethics of restraint or "adjustment" alluded to in the title and nimbly theorized throughout., Nersessian's project, to counter the consumerist fantasy of limitless consumption with the Utopia of a sustainable ecology, is skillfully executed. Her argument's backbone is in her virtuoso analyses of form. Unraveling the rhetorical strategies at work in a range of Romantic texts, she is both original and genuinely insightful... This is a book that manages to be moral, informative and entertaining all at once... Against an enduring ideological critique, of which Romanticism has been the particular target, Nersessian's view of a humane and socially engaged body of literature works as a powerful corrective., Utopia, Limited is an exciting, provocative, truly 'e~exuberant'e(tm) work of literary philosophy. It speaks to romanticists, philosophers, theorists of affect, the secular, the ordinary'e"all those who have been thinking modernity, the supposedly post-human, the now, the future, the future-of-the-now. Brilliantly activating Romanticism as adjustment, Nersessian salutes not the best but the better'e"a better imaginable precisely in relation to this world, not a negation of this world but an improvement on it. This is a work of sustained inquiry and transvaluation, such that 'e~utopia, limited'e(tm) emerges as a positive space of potential flourishing, of actually livable minimal adjustment; such that bad taste comes to look like an express route to generative utopian thinking, living, and feeling; such that secularism becomes a possible resource for art and beauty, not its death-knell. Nersessian aims to re-invent, or at least extend, our vocabularies: she succeeds., The book is a defense of restraint of all kinds: poetic form, by which Nersessian means things like rhyme and meter; natural conservation; renunciation; self-discipline. Nersessian argues that, when viewed from a certain angle, Romanticism dramatizes the 'desirability of constraint.' Her book powerfully does the same... An impressive and ambitious work., Utopia, Limited is an exciting, provocative, truly 'exuberant' work of literary philosophy. It speaks to romanticists, philosophers, theorists of affect, the secular, the ordinary--all those who have been thinking modernity, the supposedly post-human, the now, the future, the future-of-the-now. Brilliantly activating Romanticism as adjustment, Nersessian salutes not the best but the better--a better imaginable precisely in relation to this world, not a negation of this world but an improvement on it. This is a work of sustained inquiry and transvaluation, such that 'utopia, limited' emerges as a positive space of potential flourishing, of actually livable minimal adjustment; such that bad taste comes to look like an express route to generative utopian thinking, living, and feeling; such that secularism becomes a possible resource for art and beauty, not its death-knell. Nersessian aims to re-invent, or at least extend, our vocabularies: she succeeds., Lively, learned, and subtle, Utopia, Limited may well help initiate a resurgence in the teaching and study of Romanticism., Utopia, Limited opens itself to finding [limits] resonating in surprising places, such as here in our "restricted present." Nersessian's style has a light touch, and moves quickly--sometimes very quickly--between different thinkers, writers, readings, and timeframes. It is deliberately provocative, and readers will have to adjust themselves--or not--to it. This is perhaps Romanticism's cutting or bleeding edge, willing to carve Rcsm out of itself., Lively, learned and subtle, Utopia, Limited may well help initiate a resurgence in the teaching and study of Romanticism., Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment is a remarkable book with few obvious precedents. It renders the service--or perhaps throws down the gauntlet--of prompting, with incisive new theoretical equipment, a reexamination of received ideas about 'utopia' and 'Romanticism' (though it is hardly 'limited' to these). Above all, Utopia, Limited will spur critics to reread texts within and beyond Romanticism to see if they too register something like the ethics of restraint or 'adjustment' alluded to in the title and nimbly theorized throughout., Utopia, Limited opens itself to finding [limits] resonating in surprising places, such as here in our 'restricted present.' Nersessian's style has a light touch, and moves quickly--sometimes very quickly--between different thinkers, writers, readings, and timeframes. It is deliberately provocative, and readers will have to adjust themselves--or not--to it. This is perhaps Romanticism's cutting or bleeding edge, willing to carve Rcsm out of itself., Utopia, Limited is an exciting, provocative, truly 'eoeexuberant'e� work of literary philosophy. It speaks to romanticists, philosophers, theorists of affect, the secular, the ordinary'e"all those who have been thinking modernity, the supposedly post-human, the now, the future, the future-of-the-now. Brilliantly activating Romanticism as adjustment, Nersessian salutes not the best but the better'e"a better imaginable precisely in relation to this world, not a negation of this world but an improvement on it. This is a work of sustained inquiry and transvaluation, such that 'eoeutopia, limited'e� emerges as a positive space of potential flourishing, of actually livable minimal adjustment; such that bad taste comes to look like an express route to generative utopian thinking, living, and feeling; such that secularism becomes a possible resource for art and beauty, not its death-knell. Nersessian aims to re-invent, or at least extend, our vocabularies: she succeeds., This is a book about art's attentiveness to finitude in poetry and prose, but also paintings and the occasional film--a timely book capable of engaging readers from many humanistic disciplines, including and especially Romanticism... Nersessian has a talent for the well-turned phrase, and the legs upon which [her] arguments stand are smoothly elegant and often quite memorably adorned. The book is a joy to read., This is a book about art's attentiveness to finitude in poetry and prose, but also paintings and the occasional film--a timely book capable of engaging readers from many humanistic disciplines, including and especially Romanticism...Nersessian has a talent for the well-turned phrase, and the legs upon which [her] arguments stand are smoothly elegant and often quite memorably adorned. The book is a joy to read.
Copyright Date
2015
Lccn
2014-028423
Dewey Decimal
809/.93372
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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