Transparency in postwar France : a critical history of the present by Geroulanos, Stefanos, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…: a second short history -- Between state and society, I : the police, the black market, and 'the gangster' after the libération -- Between state and society, II : psychology, public health, and the rebellion of the inadaptés -- Alienation, utopia, and Marxism after 1956 -- Mask, face, and other as avatars of selfhood : a third short history -- The norm and the same -- The third order, or the structural 'symbolic' as epistemological interface -- Lévi-Strauss' world out of sync -- The ethnographer, cinéma-vérité, and the disruption of the natural order : chronicle of a summer -- Return to Rousseau : Lévi-Strauss, Starobinski, Derrida -- Return to Descartes : 'the last tribunal of the cogito' -- "Speak not of darkness, but of a somewhat blurred light" : Michel Foucault, modernity, and the distortion of knowledge -- Cybernetic complexity : prehistory, biology, and Derrida's program for liberation -- The present time and the agent of history before and after May 1968 -- The myth of the self-transparency of society : Claude Lefort and his circle -- Nineteen eighty-four : information, the scrambled signs of the ideal, and the postmodern condition.…”
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Marx and the alternative to capitalism by Allen, Kieran, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Rebel with a cause -- A for profit society -- Alienation -- Social class -- Gender and race -- How we are kept in line -- Historical materialism -- Crash : how the system implodes -- Utopia or revolution -- After the revolution -- The economics of socialism -- Into the beyond.…”
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The idea of progress in America, 1815-1860 by Ekirch, Arthur Alphonse, 1915-2000

Table of Contents: “…The heritage of the idea -- The promise of the American political experiment -- The resources for material expansion -- The advancing faith in science -- Programs for a new society -- The defence of social stability -- Education: the universal utopia -- The qualified affirmation of the South -- The systematic exploration of the idea.…”
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The city-state of the soul : constituting the self in Plato's Republic by Crotty, Kevin, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…-- Genealogies of justice -- Utopia and its founder -- Philosophy and the founder's perspective -- Why the philosophers will govern -- Introduction to part two -- The soul and its parts (I) -- The soul and its parts (II) -- Justice and action -- Freedom.…”
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Adorno on politics after Auschwitz by Mullen, Gary A., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Rationality and remembrance -- Morality and materiality -- Mimesis and political violence -- Genocidal politics : from Nazi Germany to Rwanda -- Negative dialectics, democracy and divine violence -- Violence and utopia -- Democracy as the critique of fascism -- Political judgment, genocide and the prison-industrial complex.…”
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Anarchism and its aspirations by Milstein, Cindy

Table of Contents: “…Prologue; 1 Anarchism and Its Aspirations; 2 Anarchism's Promise for Anticapitalist Resistance; 3 Democracy Is Direct; 4 Reclaim the Cities: From Protest to Popular Power; 5 Epilogue: Paths toward Utopia; Notes; Credits for Anarchist Interventions.…”
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The anatomy of bias : how neural circuits weigh the options by Lauwereyns, Jan, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Prelude: a double inheritance, a single question -- Bayes and bias -- Wish come true -- Fear materialized -- The familiarity fallacy -- The proximity trap -- Less is more -- Utopia -- a world without bias -- Coda: the pleasure of prediction error.…”
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Global citizen-- challenges and responsibility in an interconnected world

Table of Contents: “…; two ways to a global world?; the beginning of utopia; end of utopia or global citizenship as a new beginning?…”
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Bookchin : a critical appraisal by White, Damian F.

Table of Contents: “…Environments, cities and post-scarcity worlds -- Hierarchy, domination, nature : Bookchin's historical social theory -- Social ecology as modern social theory -- Capitalism and ecology -- Ethics and the normative grounds of critique -- Urbanisation, cities, utopia -- Citizens, politics, democracy -- Conclusion.…”
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Critical social theory in public administration by Box, Richard C.

Table of Contents: “…Critical imagination in a postmodern environment -- Contradiction, utopia, and public administration -- The "t"ruth is elsewhere : critical history -- Critical theory and the paradox of discourse -- Pragmatic discourse and administrative legitimacy -- Private lives and antiadministration -- Critical practice and the problem of finding a public…”
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The consumer society and the postmodern city by Clarke, David B., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Bradford -- The meaning of lifestyle -- Minimal utopia.…”
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Licensing parents : family, state, and child maltreatment by McFall, Michael T., 1978-

Table of Contents: “…-- Licensing parents -- Rights and duties -- The Constitution, due process, and prior restraint -- Unintended consequences, trust, stability, evil, and utopia.…”
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The politics of postanarchism by Newman, Saul, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The euthanasia of government : classical anarchism reconsidered -- Crowned anarchy : towards a postanarchist ontology -- An infantile disorder : anarchism and Marxism -- The horizon of anarchy : radical politics in the wake of Marx -- Debating postanarchism : ontology, ethics and utopia -- Conclusion : postanarchism and radical politics today.…”
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Lost unicorns of the velvet revolutions : heterotopias of the seminar by Nikolchina, Miglena

Table of Contents: “…Ntroduction -- The seminar : mode demploi : impure spaces in the light of late totalitarianism -- The west as intellectual utopia -- Between irony and revolution : sexual difference and the case of Aufhebung -- An unfinished project : man as comedy -- Addendum : the discretions of inverted theory -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.…”
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Stanley Fish, America's enfant terrible : the authorized biography by Olson, Gary A., 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Beginnings: The Fish Family and Friends -- Escape from Providence: The College Years -- West of Everything: The Berkeley Years -- Academic Utopia: The Hopkins Years -- The Department That Soared, and Then Plummeted -- Top of the World: The Windy City Years and Beyond 000 -- Stan the Man: Terrible, or Not Terrible.…”
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Britain and Africa Under Blair : In pursuit of the good state. by Gallagher, Julia

Table of Contents: “…How the British found utopia in Africa -- 4. The good, the bad and the ambiguous -- 5. …”
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European literary immigration into the French language : readings of Gary, Kristof, Kundera and Semprun by Miletić, Tijana

Table of Contents: “…European Literary Immigration into the French Language; Introduction; Chapter 1 : Language; Chapter 2 : Europa; Chapter 3 : Libertinism and Utopia; Chapter 4 : Doubling and incest; Conclusion; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Bibliography; Index; Table of contents.…”
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Postmodern racial dialectics : philosophy beyond the pale by Jones, Richard A. (Richard Argustia), 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Philosophy for us by us: philosophy FUBU -- The value of academic philosophy for Black folks -- Diseases of the imagination -- The politics of Black utopia -- Prolegomena to any future moral philosophy -- Horrorism in the theater of cruelty -- The technology of immortality, the soul, and human identity -- Racial authenticity -- Postmodern revolutions.…”
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Imagining urban futures : cities in science fiction and what we might learn from them by Abbott, Carl, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…-- Machines for breathing -- Migratory cities -- Utopia with walls: the carceral city -- Crabgrass chaos -- Soylent Green is people! …”
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Nationalizing Judaism : Zionism as a theological ideology by Ohana, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; Chapter One: Nationalizing Utopia; Chapter Two: Nationalizing Messianism; Chapter Three: Nationalizing Myths; Chapter Four: Nationalizing Trauma; Chapter Five: Nationalizing Land; Chapter Six: Nationalizing Space; Chapter Seven: Nationalizing Memory; Bibliography; Index; About the Author…”
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Narrating the slave trade, theorizing community by Lambert, Raphael

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The slave trade and racial community: Tamango and Roots -- Patriotism and political communities: Charles Johnson's Middle passage -- Community as utopia: Barry Unsworth's Sacred hunger -- Rethinking the slave trade/rethinking community: Edouard Glissant's "Relation" and Jean-Luc Nancy's "Being-with" -- Conclusion.…”
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Struggles of voice : the politics of indigenous representation in the Andes by Lucero, Jose Antonio, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Constructing movements and comparisons -- Toward a political and conceptual genealogy of representation -- Comparing communities, contention, and representation, 1860s-1960s -- Articulating indianness regionally and nationally, 1960s-1990s -- Neoliberal and multicultural encounters, 1990-2005 -- Strategic constructivism and essentialism -- Articulating utopias, histories, and politics.…”
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Imagining urban futures : cities in science fiction and what we might learn from them by Abbott, Carl, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…-- Machines for breathing -- Migratory cities -- Utopia with walls: the carceral city -- Crabgrass chaos -- Soylent Green is people! …”
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Struggles of voice : the politics of indigenous representation in the Andes by Lucero, Jose Antonio, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Constructing movements and comparisons -- Toward a political and conceptual genealogy of representation -- Comparing communities, contention, and representation, 1860s-1960s -- Articulating indianness regionally and nationally, 1960s-1990s -- Neoliberal and multicultural encounters, 1990-2005 -- Strategic constructivism and essentialism -- Articulating utopias, histories, and politics.…”
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Archaeology, Narrative, and the Politics of the Past : the View from Southern Maryland. by King, Julia A.

Table of Contents: “…The Transient Nature of All Things Sublunary; 4. Collecting Utopia; 5. The Past Is a Rural Landscape; 6. Commemorative Hauntings; 7. …”
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Annual review of the sociology of religion. Volume 5, Sociology and monasticism, between innovation and tradition

Table of Contents: “…Urban Buddhist Monasteries in Contemporary KoreaPART 3: Methodology and Classical Authors of the Sociology of Monasticism; 14 Studying Contemporary Monasticism in Italy: An Anthropological and Historical Perspective; 15 Monasticism and Society in Max Weber and Ernst Troeltsch; 16 Séguy and the Monastic Utopia; 17 A Sociology of Imagined Societies: Monasticism and Utopia; Index.…”
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Square Eyes : Children, Television and Fun. by Booker, Emily

Table of Contents: “…Sharing Pleasure, Humour and the 'Feel' of Utopia; Parents and Children: Conspiring for Pleasure; Humour; Passing the Time with Television; 'Learning' from Television; The 'Feel' of Utopia; Conclusion; Appendix: Research details; Methods and Approaches; Using Visual Research; Bibliography; Index…”
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Imagology profiles : the dynamics of national imagery in literature

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Table of Contents; Introduction; Focus I: Theoretical Principles, Terms, and Definitions; Imagology as Image Geology; Wider Image; Focus II: From National Imagination to Utopia; Enlightenment Culture and Others; Development of the National Hero in Latvian Literature; Nation and Utopia; How a Lithuanian Transformed a Nazi into a Jew; Focus III: Transgressing Real and Imaginary Boundaries; The Self-image of the Latvians and the Image of the Lithuanians in the Book Leišmal te by Imants and Rimants Ziedonis; Scottish Traces in the Lithuanian Landscape…”
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The Cambridge introduction to Tom Stoppard by Demastes, William W.

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The body of the people : East German dance since 1945 by Giersdorf, Jens Richard

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Spectacles between Utopia and Ostalgie -- Dancing National Identity in Daily Life : A New German Folk (1945-61) -- East German Tanztheater : Reconsidering Socialist Realism and Modernism (1960s and 1970s) -- Resistive Motions in the East : Rechoreographing Opposition (1980s) -- Border Crossings and Intranational Trespasses : The Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989-2009) -- Toward a Transnational History of East German Dance : The Choreography of Patricio Bunster (1930s to Present).…”
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The body of the people : East German dance since 1945 by Giersdorf, Jens Richard

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Spectacles between Utopia and Ostalgie -- Dancing National Identity in Daily Life : A New German Folk (1945-61) -- East German Tanztheater : Reconsidering Socialist Realism and Modernism (1960s and 1970s) -- Resistive Motions in the East : Rechoreographing Opposition (1980s) -- Border Crossings and Intranational Trespasses : The Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989-2009) -- Toward a Transnational History of East German Dance : The Choreography of Patricio Bunster (1930s to Present).…”
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Henri Lefebvre : Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City. by Butler, Chris (Chris Adrian)

Table of Contents: “…Suburbia, Habitat and Bureaucratic PowerDwelling and Inhabitance; The Body, Inhabitance and Mobility; Tragedy and Utopia in the Everyday; 6. The Right to the City and the Production of Differential Space; Concrete Utopia and the Politics of Space; The Right to the City; The Right to Difference; The Production of Differential Space; Conclusions and Openings; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Life on the other border : farmworkers and food justice in Vermont by Mares, Teresa M., 1978-

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Framing Faust : Twentieth-Century Cultural Struggles. by Hedges, Inez

Table of Contents: “…Faust and early film spectatorship -- German fascism and the contested terrain of culture -- Socialist visions: Faust and Utopia -- Gendering Faust -- Anti-Fausts and the Avant-garde -- Oneiric Fausts: repression and liberation in the Cold War era -- Reframing the Faustian question -- Selected filmography: chronology of Faust films.…”
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Emotions in finance : booms, busts and uncertainty by Pixley, Jocelyn, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Modern money, modern conflicts -- Corporate suspicion in the kingdom of rationality -- Financial press as trust agencies -- Required distrust and the onus of a bonus -- Managing credibility in central banks -- Hierarchies of distrust from trust to bust -- Overwhelmed by numbers -- The time-utopia in finance -- Taming the god of opportunism.…”
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Lusophone Africa : beyond independence by Arenas, Fernando, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Lusophone Africa within the global and the postcolonial -- African, Portuguese, and Brazilian interconnections : the Lusophone transatlantic matrix -- Cesária Évora and the globalization of Cape Verdean music -- Lusophone Africa on screen : after utopia and before the end of hope -- Angolan literature : after independence and under the shadow of war.…”
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The Versailles Treaty and Its Legacy : the Failure of the Wilsonian Vision. by Graebner, Norman A.

Table of Contents: “…The international order on trial -- The road to Paris -- Versailles : a study in arrogance -- The retreat to Utopia -- Manchuria and the triumph of non-recognition -- The rise of Hitler -- Challenge of the dictators -- The illusive response -- Munich : the continuing escape from reality -- The road to Prague -- The Soviet quest for collective security -- The coming of war.…”
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FashionEast : the spectre that haunted socialism by Bartlett, Djurdja, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Art versus technology : early Soviet dilemmas on dress -- Between science and myth : the birth of socialist fashion -- East Europe : from utopia to myth -- The Cold War and the fashion war -- From red to beige : a set of rules -- The decline of socialist fashion -- Fashion rising.…”
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A most ingenious paradox : the art of Gilbert and Sullivan by Wren, Gayden, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Pinafore -- The pirates of Penzance -- Patience -- Iolanthe -- Princess Ida -- The mikado -- Ruddigore -- The Yeomen of the guard -- The gondoliers -- Utopia, limited -- The grand duke -- Gilbert after Sullivan, Sullivan after Gilbert.…”
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The end of the world : apocalypse and its aftermath in Western culture by Lisboa, Maria Manuel, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Falling out with Hal and Hester -- 5. Dying of happiness: Utopia at the end of this world -- Afterword: Libera me, Domine, de vita æterna.…”
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