Socialism : the active utopia / Zygmunt Bauman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bauman, Zygmunt, 1925-2017.

Series:

Routledge revivals.

Controversies in sociology ; 3.

Routledge revivals

Controversies in sociology ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism.

Utopias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (110 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-99949-3

1-136-99950-7

1-282-97407-6

9786612974076

0-203-85571-X

9780203855713

OCLC:

609845492