Review: Utopianism for a Dying Planet. Life After Consumerism, by Gregory Claeys

18 March, 2023

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In this impassioned study—part exploratory history of utopian imaginaries, part manifesto for collective solidarity and sociability underpinned by sustainability—historian of ideas Gregory Claeys argues for utopianism as an urgently needed ‘principle of renewal’. He describes utopia as vital, considering it ‘part of a family of concepts of imaginary spaces’ in which ideal communities flourish.

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