Some Thoughts on the Utopian
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6136159 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Avery F Gordon (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology & Materialism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2364-0480 • E-ISSN: 2364-0480 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/am.678 |
| OpenAlex | W2562602737 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
I. The Missing Story Utopias have something to do with failure and tell us more about our own limits and weaknesses than they do about perfect societies. Even if one insists (as I do) that you can't fail unless you try to succeed, the idea is an uncomfortable one and seems to redirect objective inquiries (about social and political difficulties, for example) back into psychological vicious circles which turn on the desire to lose, or an innate pessimism, or inferiority feelings and paralyzin
Aesthetics · Economics · Epistemology · Feeling · Pessimism · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Virtuous circle and vicious circle · Economic and Social Development · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Sciences and Policies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |