Vincent Geoghegan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1158869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincent Geoghegan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincent |
| FAMILY NAME | Geoghegan |
| SIGNATURE | GEOGHEGAN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of International Relations |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Althusser, Machiavelli and the “Theoretical Utopia”
This article examines Althusser’s rich analysis of the work of Machiavelli, looking particularly at his deployment of the term “utopia” and “utopianism” in his reading of the Florentine’s work. More particularly the focus is on Althusser’s use of the concept of the “theoretical utopia” which in his text Machiavelli and Us he asserts is the definitive form of utopianism in Machiavelli’s theoretical project. The issue is complicated by the fact tha…
Political Thought in Ireland since the Seventeenth Century
"Marcuse and "the Christian Bourgeois Concept of Freedom
Contemporary theorization of the post-secular involves, and further invites, philosophical and historical reflection on the nature of the secular. Charles Taylor, in A Secular Age, has warned against what he terms “subtraction stories” of the emergence of modern secularism, narratives built around simplistic images of the rejection of, and liberation from, a Christian age of faith; these polemical confections need to be replaced, he argues, by ac…
Socialism and Religion: Roads to Common Wealth
In the past decade philosophers and political theorists have increasingly pondered the role of religion in a modern secular society, and of the possible value of religion as a resource for contemporary thinking. The global resurgence of a new religious politics – graphically symbolised by 9/11 - has added a new urgency to this project; how is religion to be integrated, and if necessary contested, in such a time? As this study shows, the desire to…
Socialism and Religion: Roads to Common Wealth
Political Thought in Ireland Since the Seventeenth Century
D. George Boyce, University College, Swansea Robert Eccleshall, Queen's Univeristy of Belfast Richard English, Queen's University of Belfast Vincent Geoghegan, Queen's University of Belfast Ian McBride, Institute of Historical Research, University of London Breandan O Buachalla, University College, Dublin Margaret O'Callaghan, Queen's University of Belfast Jennifer Todd, University College, Dublin
Pandora's Box: Reflections on a Myth
The article seeks to consider the relationship between hope and utopianism by looking at the ancient Greek myth of Pandora's Box, with its enigmatic figure of hope. It begins by considering Hesiod's influential formulation of the myth, before examining a range of modern interpretations in which diverse conceptions of hope are to be found. Using the work of Spinoza, Hume and Day an alternative conception of hope is proposed that conjoins hope with…
Utopia, religion and memory
This article explores utopianism and the memory of religion. It examines the way in which the forward glance of utopianism necessarily draws heavily on the backward glance, which is discussed here in terms of memory. The religious focus is justified in terms of the recent post-secular turn in political theory, which has itself gained energy and further necessity by the global upsurge in highly visible religio-political movements. It explores the …
Olaf Stapledon: Utopia and Worship
Research Article| December 01 2005 Olaf Stapledon: Utopia and Worship Vincent Geoghegan Vincent Geoghegan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2005) 16 (3): 347–364. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718760 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Vincent Geoghegan; Olaf Stapledon: Utopia and Worship. Utopian Studies 1 December 2005; 16 (3): 347–364. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20718…
Ideology and utopia
Although Karl Mannheim and Ernst Bloch provide two contrasting analyses of the relationship between ideology and utopia, they hold in common the belief that the two concepts need to be examined together as a pair of closely related concepts. Mannheim argues that the ideological and the utopian are both forms of 'reality‐transcendence', and constructs an historical account of their role in the emergence of modernity. Bloch posits a 'utopian surplu…
Religion and communism: Feuerbach, Marx and Bloch
Whilst Marx made scattered positive remarks about the details of communist society, he also made important negative indications. Religion features in this negativity: his critique of religion is withering, there is no mention of religious life in communism, and he is emphatic that religion will play no role in such a society. For Marx, one of the tangible freedoms of communism was freedom from religion. The critique of religion is fundamentally i…
Hope Lost, Hope Regained
Let the Dead Bury their Dead: Marx, Derrida and Bloch
Religious narrative, post‐secularism and Utopia
(2000). Religious narrative, post‐secularism and Utopia. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 3, The Philosophy of Utopia, pp. 205-224
The preconditions of socialism
Has socialism a future
The starting point of this article is the currently fashionable ‘death of socialism’ thesis. The article is sceptical of the inflated claims of this thesis, and seeks to develop a critique of its underlying assumptions. After an initial attempt to situate the thesis in an historical context, it moves on to examine the principal components of the thesis, namely, changes in the working class, globalization, the collapse of communism, and postmodern…
National past, socialist future
Socialism, national identities and post‐nationalist citizenship
This article examines the problems socialism has experienced in its relationships with nationalism and national identities. These problems are grouped under the headings of universalism and particularism. It uses historical material, much of it drawn from Ireland, to illustrate these problems. It examines, for example, the emergence of socialism in the Ireland of the 1830s and 1840s, and the socialist republicanism of James Connolly. It argues, n…
Ralahine: An Irish Owenite Community (1831–1833)
This article is a study of the Owenite community established in Co. Clare, Ireland from November 1831 to November 1833. It examines the role of economic crisis in Ireland in stimulating interest in Owenite solutions. It analyses the differing motivations of the various actors (landowner, Owenite reformer, the peasantry) in joining the venture. It examines the sources of the community's stability – economic, sociological, and cultural. It argues t…
A Jacobite History: The Abbé MacGeoghegan’s History of Ireland
Utopianism and Marxism
This is a reissue of an influential text that was first published in 1987, to which the author has added an introduction reflecting on the work twenty years after publication. The grounding assumption of the book is that an element of utopianism is a necessity in any political thinking, and that a self-conscious utopianism can generate a richer level of theory and practice. The text then follows the chequered career of utopianism in the Marxist t…
Utopianism and Marxism
Ideology and utopia
Although Karl Mannheim and Ernst Bloch provide two contrasting analyses of the relationship between ideology and utopia, they hold in common the belief that the two concepts need to be examined together as a pair of closely related concepts. Mannheim argues that the ideological and the utopian are both forms of 'reality‐transcendence', and constructs an historical account of their role in the emergence of modernity. Bloch posits a 'utopian surplu…
Hope Lost, Hope Regained
Socialism, national identities and post‐nationalist citizenship
This article examines the problems socialism has experienced in its relationships with nationalism and national identities. These problems are grouped under the headings of universalism and particularism. It uses historical material, much of it drawn from Ireland, to illustrate these problems. It examines, for example, the emergence of socialism in the Ireland of the 1830s and 1840s, and the socialist republicanism of James Connolly. It argues, n…
Let the Dead Bury their Dead: Marx, Derrida and Bloch
Religious narrative, post‐secularism and Utopia
(2000). Religious narrative, post‐secularism and Utopia. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 3, The Philosophy of Utopia, pp. 205-224
Ralahine: An Irish Owenite Community (1831–1833)
This article is a study of the Owenite community established in Co. Clare, Ireland from November 1831 to November 1833. It examines the role of economic crisis in Ireland in stimulating interest in Owenite solutions. It analyses the differing motivations of the various actors (landowner, Owenite reformer, the peasantry) in joining the venture. It examines the sources of the community's stability – economic, sociological, and cultural. It argues t…
Religion and communism: Feuerbach, Marx and Bloch
Whilst Marx made scattered positive remarks about the details of communist society, he also made important negative indications. Religion features in this negativity: his critique of religion is withering, there is no mention of religious life in communism, and he is emphatic that religion will play no role in such a society. For Marx, one of the tangible freedoms of communism was freedom from religion. The critique of religion is fundamentally i…
Utopianism and Marxism
Utopianism and Marxism
This is a reissue of an influential text that was first published in 1987, to which the author has added an introduction reflecting on the work twenty years after publication. The grounding assumption of the book is that an element of utopianism is a necessity in any political thinking, and that a self-conscious utopianism can generate a richer level of theory and practice. The text then follows the chequered career of utopianism in the Marxist t…
Ralahine: An Irish Owenite Community (1831–1833)
This article is a study of the Owenite community established in Co. Clare, Ireland from November 1831 to November 1833. It examines the role of economic crisis in Ireland in stimulating interest in Owenite solutions. It analyses the differing motivations of the various actors (landowner, Owenite reformer, the peasantry) in joining the venture. It examines the sources of the community's stability – economic, sociological, and cultural. It argues t…
A Jacobite History: The Abbé MacGeoghegan’s History of Ireland
National past, socialist future
Socialism, national identities and post‐nationalist citizenship
This article examines the problems socialism has experienced in its relationships with nationalism and national identities. These problems are grouped under the headings of universalism and particularism. It uses historical material, much of it drawn from Ireland, to illustrate these problems. It examines, for example, the emergence of socialism in the Ireland of the 1830s and 1840s, and the socialist republicanism of James Connolly. It argues, n…
The preconditions of socialism
Has socialism a future
The starting point of this article is the currently fashionable ‘death of socialism’ thesis. The article is sceptical of the inflated claims of this thesis, and seeks to develop a critique of its underlying assumptions. After an initial attempt to situate the thesis in an historical context, it moves on to examine the principal components of the thesis, namely, changes in the working class, globalization, the collapse of communism, and postmodern…
Religious narrative, post‐secularism and Utopia
(2000). Religious narrative, post‐secularism and Utopia. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 3, The Philosophy of Utopia, pp. 205-224
Let the Dead Bury their Dead: Marx, Derrida and Bloch
Hope Lost, Hope Regained
Ideology and utopia
Although Karl Mannheim and Ernst Bloch provide two contrasting analyses of the relationship between ideology and utopia, they hold in common the belief that the two concepts need to be examined together as a pair of closely related concepts. Mannheim argues that the ideological and the utopian are both forms of 'reality‐transcendence', and constructs an historical account of their role in the emergence of modernity. Bloch posits a 'utopian surplu…
Religion and communism: Feuerbach, Marx and Bloch
Whilst Marx made scattered positive remarks about the details of communist society, he also made important negative indications. Religion features in this negativity: his critique of religion is withering, there is no mention of religious life in communism, and he is emphatic that religion will play no role in such a society. For Marx, one of the tangible freedoms of communism was freedom from religion. The critique of religion is fundamentally i…
Olaf Stapledon: Utopia and Worship
Research Article| December 01 2005 Olaf Stapledon: Utopia and Worship Vincent Geoghegan Vincent Geoghegan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2005) 16 (3): 347–364. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718760 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Vincent Geoghegan; Olaf Stapledon: Utopia and Worship. Utopian Studies 1 December 2005; 16 (3): 347–364. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20718…
Utopia, religion and memory
This article explores utopianism and the memory of religion. It examines the way in which the forward glance of utopianism necessarily draws heavily on the backward glance, which is discussed here in terms of memory. The religious focus is justified in terms of the recent post-secular turn in political theory, which has itself gained energy and further necessity by the global upsurge in highly visible religio-political movements. It explores the …
Political Thought in Ireland Since the Seventeenth Century
D. George Boyce, University College, Swansea Robert Eccleshall, Queen's Univeristy of Belfast Richard English, Queen's University of Belfast Vincent Geoghegan, Queen's University of Belfast Ian McBride, Institute of Historical Research, University of London Breandan O Buachalla, University College, Dublin Margaret O'Callaghan, Queen's University of Belfast Jennifer Todd, University College, Dublin
Pandora's Box: Reflections on a Myth
The article seeks to consider the relationship between hope and utopianism by looking at the ancient Greek myth of Pandora's Box, with its enigmatic figure of hope. It begins by considering Hesiod's influential formulation of the myth, before examining a range of modern interpretations in which diverse conceptions of hope are to be found. Using the work of Spinoza, Hume and Day an alternative conception of hope is proposed that conjoins hope with…
Socialism and Religion: Roads to Common Wealth
In the past decade philosophers and political theorists have increasingly pondered the role of religion in a modern secular society, and of the possible value of religion as a resource for contemporary thinking. The global resurgence of a new religious politics – graphically symbolised by 9/11 - has added a new urgency to this project; how is religion to be integrated, and if necessary contested, in such a time? As this study shows, the desire to…
Socialism and Religion: Roads to Common Wealth
"Marcuse and "the Christian Bourgeois Concept of Freedom
Contemporary theorization of the post-secular involves, and further invites, philosophical and historical reflection on the nature of the secular. Charles Taylor, in A Secular Age, has warned against what he terms “subtraction stories” of the emergence of modern secularism, narratives built around simplistic images of the rejection of, and liberation from, a Christian age of faith; these polemical confections need to be replaced, he argues, by ac…
Political Thought in Ireland since the Seventeenth Century
Althusser, Machiavelli and the “Theoretical Utopia”
This article examines Althusser’s rich analysis of the work of Machiavelli, looking particularly at his deployment of the term “utopia” and “utopianism” in his reading of the Florentine’s work. More particularly the focus is on Althusser’s use of the concept of the “theoretical utopia” which in his text Machiavelli and Us he asserts is the definitive form of utopianism in Machiavelli’s theoretical project. The issue is complicated by the fact tha…
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