No Other Planet

Mathias Thaler teaches Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh.

• 1. Solid Frames and Open Doors; 2. Varieties of Utopian Thinking; 3. What if: Planet Earth as an actor; 4. If Only: Eutopias of Scientific Progress between Techno-Optimism and Anti-Capitalism; 5. If this goes on: Hope Lost, Hope Regained; 6. Sober Realism and Radical Imagination.

'No Other Planet synthesises astute theoretical analysis, bold imagination and an acute consciousness of the stakes for scholars writing about the climate crisis to engage readers in the transformative possibilities of utopian thought, art and action. Dispelling both tired dismissals of utopia as wishful thinking, and their counterpart in resigned fatalism, Mathias Thaler demonstrates how different utopian imaginations, in theory, in fiction and in the prefiguration of activism, can estrange, galvanise and caution those for whom the future seemed fixed by the past and present. In this sense, while never overstating the difference that theory can make in the face of our planet in peril, Thaler has written a book that allows his readers to recognise this one, only planet as one whose future our care, attention and imagination might make a difference.' Danielle Celermajer, The University of Sydney