Truth and method

There ain't no black in the Union Jack

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Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions

The Concept of History

Like other fields of inquiry, the social sciences have attempted to move with the times, even to the point of developing new descriptors for familiar social phenomena. The study of utopian societies is a case in point; a number of related components must be clarified at the outset of this discussion. First of all, it is important to note that not all utopian experiments are communal in nature, although the tendency to believe that they are is fairly common. Neither are utopian communities necessarily religious in philosophy, nor are they necessarily antiestablishment or delusional gatherings. It is true that many of them originated in response to the dreams or visions of a particularly charismatic individual, but others emerged as a result of rational group action or as what might be termed extended forms of social antithesis.

The Concept of Utopia

This article examines the relationship between utopian production and reception via a reading of the work of the great utopian author and theorist William Morris. This relationship has invariably b...

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My utopia is your utopia? William Morris, utopian theory and the claims of the past:

The work of W. E. B. Du Bois is a powerful but unjustly neglected resource for sociological enquiry. Powerful insofar that it cuts against the grain of sociology as it exists today, offering a dist...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0038026120954330

Ugly progress: W. E. B. Du Bois’s sociology of the future:

This article is focused on exploring the value of literary utopias for social theory. The literary utopia, at first glance, appears irrelevant to sociology, its imaginative descriptions of social w...

Looking laterally: The literary utopia and the task of critical social theory:

William Morris, author of the famous nineteenth-century utopian novel News from Nowhere, thought it both possible and desirable to develop a utopian vision that could be affirmed by many individual...

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Between Utopia and Tradition: William Morris’s A Dream of John Ball

Ernst Bloch is a philosopher of hope, of this there can be no doubt. It is the fidelity to the proposition that a better world is possible that undergirds Bloch’s work. Yet, the hopeful tenor of Bl...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14409917.2021.1957364

Joe P. L. Davidson

Papers

My utopia is your utopia? William Morris, utopian theory and the claims of the past:

Ugly progress: W. E. B. Du Bois’s sociology of the future:

Looking laterally: The literary utopia and the task of critical social theory:

Between Utopia and Tradition: William Morris’s A Dream of John Ball

A Dash of Pessimism? Ernst Bloch, Radical Disappointment and the Militant Excavation of Hope