Becoming Utopian

Tom Moylan is Glucksman Professor Emeritus at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Founder of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies and an internationally recognised scholar and teacher, his previous books include Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination and Scraps of the Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia.

• Preface, Ruth LevitasIntroduction: Becoming Utopian1. Strong Thought in Hard Times: Utopia, Pedagogy, Agency2. Bloch Against Bloch: The Theological Reception of Das Prinzip Hoffnung and the Liberation of the Utopian Function3. Denunciation/Annunciation: The Utopian Methodology of Liberation Theology4. Look Into the Dark: On Dystopia and the Novum5. Making the Present Impossible: On the Vocation of Utopian Science Fiction6. N-H-N: Kim Stanley Robinson's Dialectics of Ecology7. "To Live Consciously is to Sow the Whirlwind": Reflecions on the Utopian Standpoint of Nonviolence8. Steps of Renewed Praxis: Tracking the Utopian Method9. Still Demanding the Impossible: '68 and the Critical Utopian ImaginationAfterword, Philip E. Wegner (University of Florida, USA)NotesBibliographyIndex

This is the kind of book that utopian studies needs.