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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808021603321

Autore

Bauman Zygmunt <1925-2017.>

Titolo

Socialism : the active utopia / / Zygmunt Bauman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon, : Routledge, 2010

ISBN

1-136-99949-3

1-136-99950-7

1-282-97407-6

9786612974076

0-203-85571-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (110 p.)

Collana

Routledge revivals

Controversies in sociology ; ; 3

Disciplina

307.77

335.02

Soggetti

Socialism

Utopias

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title01; Copyright01; Title02; Copyright02; Contents; 1 Utopia and Reality; 2 Utopia and the Modern Mind; 3 The Historical Location of Socialism; 4 The Structure of the Socialist Utopia; 5 Utopia and Commonsense; 6 A Socialist Experiment; 7 Socialism as Culture; 8 Continuity and Change; 9 Roads from Utopia; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Rather than contributing to the long-standing discussion about the characteristics of the society that socialism proposes to establish, this Routledge Revival, initially published in 1976, aims to explore the impact of the 'living utopia' of socialism on the development of modern society. It begins with an analysis of the role of utopia in general, and of the socialist utopia in particular; Bauman considers the opposition between 'utopian' and 'scientific' social thought; He presents socialism as the 'counter-culture' of capitali