Concrete Utopianism
The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6557472 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gary Wilder (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Concrete Utopianism (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Fordham University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9780823299904 |
| OpenAlex | W4288731147 |
| Open Library | OL35160431M |
| ISBN | 9780823299881, 9780823299904 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Never before has it been more important for Left thinking to champion expansive visions for societal transformation. Yet influential currents of critical theory have lost sight of this political imperative. Provincial notions of places, periods, and subjects obstruct our capacity to invent new alignments and envision a world we wish to see. Political imagination is misread as optimism. Utopianism is conflated with idealism. Revolutionary traditions of non-liberal universalism and non-bourgeois humanism are rendered illegible. Negative critique becomes an end in itself. Pessimism is mistaken for radicalism and political fatalism risks winning the day. In this book, Gary Wilder insists that we place solidarity and temporality at the center of our political thinking. He develops a critique of Left realism, Left culturalism, and Left pessimism from the standpoint of heterodox Marxism and Black radicalism
Aesthetics · Culturalism · Epistemology · Pessimism · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Realism · Sociology · Solidarity · Temporality · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |