Laurence Davis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3589442 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Laurence Davis |
| PRENOMES | Laurence |
| SOBRENOME | Davis |
| ASSINATURA | DAVIS L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College Cork |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9883-7252 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Revolutionary failure and utopia
What constitutes revolutionary failure, and how, if at all, can the utopian imagination reanimate unfulfilled revolutionary dreams and aspirations? In this essay I aim to demonstrate the inadequacy of commonly accepted accounts of revolutionary ‘success’ and ‘failure’, and to develop an original alternative account of revolution which foregrounds the role of utopian imagination in transmitting deferred or defeated revolutionary hopes from one gen…
Anarchism and utopianism
Anarchism and the dialectic of utopia - John P. Clark Part II Antecedents of the anarchist literary utopia 2. Daoism as utopian or accommodationist: radical Daoism reexamined in light of the Guodian Manuscripts - John A. Rapp 3. Diderot's *Supplement au voyage de Bougainville*: steps towards an anarchist utopia - Peter G. Stillman Part III Anti-capitalism and the anarchist utopian literary imagination 4. Everyone an artist: art, labour, anarchy, …
The Past and Future of Utopian Studies
This critical forum on “The Past and Future of Utopian Studies” originated as a roundtable discussion at the conference, “Opening Utopia: New Directions in Utopian Studies,” held at the University of Brighton in July 2022. The title of the conference reflected a determination on the part of the program coordination team—Patricia McManus (University of Brighton), Laurence Davis (University College Cork), Siân Adiseshiah (Loughborough University), …
Political Uses of Utopia
The scholarly field of utopian studies has to date focused primarily on three broad varieties of utopianism: literary utopias, utopian social thought, and communal experiments. By comparison, the study of the relationship between utopia and politics has been relatively neglected. In his book Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction, published in 2010, Lyman Tower Sargent observes that at the time of writing there was no general study of the role uto…
Journey Through Utopia
The publication by PM Press of this impressive new edition of Marie Louise Berneri's classic study of utopian literature from Plato to Huxley, Journey Through Utopia, could not be more timely. One of the founding texts of the emerging discipline of utopian studies, first published posthumously in 1950, Journey Through Utopia is a book very much of its own time that also speaks directly to our own.Berneri's book was written in the 1940s during a b…
Grounded Utopia
The concept of utopia is from the moment of its inception umbilically tied to modern conceptions of progress that have legitimized settler colonialism, the genocide of Indigenous peoples, the violent subordination of women and racial and sexual “others,” ecocide, and a “grow or die” form of civilization that is now threatening the very existence of all life on the planet. Drawing on the critical socialist insights of Gustav Landauer, Ernst Bloch,…
Anarchist Democracy and the Ideal of Communal Individuality
This article examines debates about the relationship between anarchism and democracy, focusing on hidden assumptions regarding the proper relationship between the individual and the community in anarchist theory and practice. My argument is that whereas positions on the issue tend to polarise into competing camps -either anarchism and democracy are fundamentally incompatible, or they are seamlessly compatible -a more nuanced account guided by the…
Anarchism and eugenics
This book focuses on the apparently surprising convergence between anarchism and eugenics. By tracing the reception of eugenic ideas within five different anarchist movements –Argentina, England, France, Portugal and Spain – the book argues that, in fact, there is ample evidence for anarchist interest in, and implementation of, some form of eugenics. The author argues that this intersection between anarchism and eugenics can be understood as an e…
The politics of attack
Since the early 2000s, global, underground networks of insurrectionary anarchists have carried out thousands of acts of political violence. This book is an exploration of the ideas, strategies, and history of these political actors that engage in a confrontation with the oppressive powers of the state and capital. The vast majority of these attacks have been claimed via online communiqués through anonymous monikers such as the Informal Anarchist …
Utopia as Method
In 1990, Ruth Levitas published her pathbreaking book The Concept of Utopia, a work that helped to shape the emerging field of utopian studies and inspired a generation of utopian studies scholars. Twenty-three years later, she has published a major new contribution to the field, Utopia as Method: The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society. Like its predecessor, Utopia as Method is exceptionally well informed, clearly and accessibly written, and dee…
Morris, Wilde, and Le Guin on Art, Work, and Utopia
Research Article| January 01 2009 Morris, Wilde, and Le Guin on Art, Work, and Utopia Laurence Davis Laurence Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2009) 20 (2): 213–248. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719947 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Laurence Davis; Morris, Wilde, and Le Guin on Art, Work, and Utopia. Utopian Studies 1 January 2009; 20 (2): 213–248. doi: https:…
The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. le Guin's the Dispossessed
The Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz as 'The most striking description I know of the seductions—and snares—of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society.' To date, however, the radical social, cultural, and political ramifications of Le Guin's multiple award-winning novel remain woefully under explored. Editors Laurence Davis and Peter Stillman right this state of affairs in the first ever collecti…
Isaiah Berlin, William Morris, and the politics of Utopia
Morris, Wilde, and Marx on the Social Preconditions of Individual Development
According to some socialist thinkers, an anti-modern, Romantic form of Communism represents the most credible alternative to bureaucratic socialism. My aim in this paper is to test the merits of this claim by considering the critique of capitalism articulated by the first Marxian-influenced Romantic Communist, William Morris. My argument is that Morris' hostility to modernity severely diminishes the force of his otherwise radical criticisms of ar…
Isaiah Berlin, William Morris, and the politics of Utopia
Morris, Wilde, and Marx on the Social Preconditions of Individual Development
According to some socialist thinkers, an anti-modern, Romantic form of Communism represents the most credible alternative to bureaucratic socialism. My aim in this paper is to test the merits of this claim by considering the critique of capitalism articulated by the first Marxian-influenced Romantic Communist, William Morris. My argument is that Morris' hostility to modernity severely diminishes the force of his otherwise radical criticisms of ar…
Grounded Utopia
The concept of utopia is from the moment of its inception umbilically tied to modern conceptions of progress that have legitimized settler colonialism, the genocide of Indigenous peoples, the violent subordination of women and racial and sexual “others,” ecocide, and a “grow or die” form of civilization that is now threatening the very existence of all life on the planet. Drawing on the critical socialist insights of Gustav Landauer, Ernst Bloch,…
Morris, Wilde, and Marx on the Social Preconditions of Individual Development
According to some socialist thinkers, an anti-modern, Romantic form of Communism represents the most credible alternative to bureaucratic socialism. My aim in this paper is to test the merits of this claim by considering the critique of capitalism articulated by the first Marxian-influenced Romantic Communist, William Morris. My argument is that Morris' hostility to modernity severely diminishes the force of his otherwise radical criticisms of ar…
Isaiah Berlin, William Morris, and the politics of Utopia
The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. le Guin's the Dispossessed
The Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz as 'The most striking description I know of the seductions—and snares—of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society.' To date, however, the radical social, cultural, and political ramifications of Le Guin's multiple award-winning novel remain woefully under explored. Editors Laurence Davis and Peter Stillman right this state of affairs in the first ever collecti…
Morris, Wilde, and Le Guin on Art, Work, and Utopia
Research Article| January 01 2009 Morris, Wilde, and Le Guin on Art, Work, and Utopia Laurence Davis Laurence Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2009) 20 (2): 213–248. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719947 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Laurence Davis; Morris, Wilde, and Le Guin on Art, Work, and Utopia. Utopian Studies 1 January 2009; 20 (2): 213–248. doi: https:…
Utopia as Method
In 1990, Ruth Levitas published her pathbreaking book The Concept of Utopia, a work that helped to shape the emerging field of utopian studies and inspired a generation of utopian studies scholars. Twenty-three years later, she has published a major new contribution to the field, Utopia as Method: The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society. Like its predecessor, Utopia as Method is exceptionally well informed, clearly and accessibly written, and dee…
The politics of attack
Since the early 2000s, global, underground networks of insurrectionary anarchists have carried out thousands of acts of political violence. This book is an exploration of the ideas, strategies, and history of these political actors that engage in a confrontation with the oppressive powers of the state and capital. The vast majority of these attacks have been claimed via online communiqués through anonymous monikers such as the Informal Anarchist …
Anarchism and eugenics
This book focuses on the apparently surprising convergence between anarchism and eugenics. By tracing the reception of eugenic ideas within five different anarchist movements –Argentina, England, France, Portugal and Spain – the book argues that, in fact, there is ample evidence for anarchist interest in, and implementation of, some form of eugenics. The author argues that this intersection between anarchism and eugenics can be understood as an e…
Anarchist Democracy and the Ideal of Communal Individuality
This article examines debates about the relationship between anarchism and democracy, focusing on hidden assumptions regarding the proper relationship between the individual and the community in anarchist theory and practice. My argument is that whereas positions on the issue tend to polarise into competing camps -either anarchism and democracy are fundamentally incompatible, or they are seamlessly compatible -a more nuanced account guided by the…
Political Uses of Utopia
The scholarly field of utopian studies has to date focused primarily on three broad varieties of utopianism: literary utopias, utopian social thought, and communal experiments. By comparison, the study of the relationship between utopia and politics has been relatively neglected. In his book Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction, published in 2010, Lyman Tower Sargent observes that at the time of writing there was no general study of the role uto…
Journey Through Utopia
The publication by PM Press of this impressive new edition of Marie Louise Berneri's classic study of utopian literature from Plato to Huxley, Journey Through Utopia, could not be more timely. One of the founding texts of the emerging discipline of utopian studies, first published posthumously in 1950, Journey Through Utopia is a book very much of its own time that also speaks directly to our own.Berneri's book was written in the 1940s during a b…
Grounded Utopia
The concept of utopia is from the moment of its inception umbilically tied to modern conceptions of progress that have legitimized settler colonialism, the genocide of Indigenous peoples, the violent subordination of women and racial and sexual “others,” ecocide, and a “grow or die” form of civilization that is now threatening the very existence of all life on the planet. Drawing on the critical socialist insights of Gustav Landauer, Ernst Bloch,…
The Past and Future of Utopian Studies
This critical forum on “The Past and Future of Utopian Studies” originated as a roundtable discussion at the conference, “Opening Utopia: New Directions in Utopian Studies,” held at the University of Brighton in July 2022. The title of the conference reflected a determination on the part of the program coordination team—Patricia McManus (University of Brighton), Laurence Davis (University College Cork), Siân Adiseshiah (Loughborough University), …
Anarchism and utopianism
Anarchism and the dialectic of utopia - John P. Clark Part II Antecedents of the anarchist literary utopia 2. Daoism as utopian or accommodationist: radical Daoism reexamined in light of the Guodian Manuscripts - John A. Rapp 3. Diderot's *Supplement au voyage de Bougainville*: steps towards an anarchist utopia - Peter G. Stillman Part III Anti-capitalism and the anarchist utopian literary imagination 4. Everyone an artist: art, labour, anarchy, …
Revolutionary failure and utopia
What constitutes revolutionary failure, and how, if at all, can the utopian imagination reanimate unfulfilled revolutionary dreams and aspirations? In this essay I aim to demonstrate the inadequacy of commonly accepted accounts of revolutionary ‘success’ and ‘failure’, and to develop an original alternative account of revolution which foregrounds the role of utopian imagination in transmitting deferred or defeated revolutionary hopes from one gen…
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