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Pages: 332
Authors: Tony Burns
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-02-19 - Publisher: Lexington Books

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Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed is of interest to political theorists partly because of its association with anarchism and partly because it is thought to
Political Science Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Donald M. Hassler
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

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As the science fiction writer Frederik Pohl observes in the lead essay, the contributors collectively find science fiction to be either implicitly or explicitly
The Philosophy of Utopia
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Pages: 271
Authors: Barbara Goodwin
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-06 - Publisher: Routledge

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This collection addresses the important function of utopianism in social and political philosophy and includes debate on what its future role will be in a perio
Defined by a Hollow
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Authors: Darko Suvin
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Darko Suvin explores utopian horizons in fiction & utopian/dystopian readings of historical reality since the 1970s, focusing in the United States & United King
Globalization, Utopia and Postcolonial Science Fiction
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Authors: E. Smith
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This study considers the recent surge of science fiction narratives from the postcolonial Third World as a utopian response to the spatial, political, and repre