Utopia as Method: The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society

Utopia should be understood as a method rather than a goal. This book rehabilitates utopia as a repressed dimension of the sociological and in the process produces the Imaginary Reconstitution of Society, a provisional, reflexive and dialogic method for exploring alternative possible futures.

Politics & Social Sciences

Levitas, R.

Philosophy

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

<p>Utopia should be understood as a method rather than a goal. This book rehabilitates utopia as a repressed dimension of the sociological and in the process produces the Imaginary Reconstitution of Society, a provisional, reflexive and dialogic method for exploring alternative possible futures.</p>

A topical critical examination of the idea of social exclusion and the new political language of social cohesion, community, stakeholding and inclusion. The Inclusive Society? examines the actions and rhetoric of the Labour Party and Labour Government under Tony Blair's leadership. It identifies three different discourses of social exclusion. Using this model, it explores views of inclusion put forward by Will Hutton and other stakeholders, by communitarians including Etzioni and Gray, and by the Labour Party from the Borrie and the Commission on Social Justice to Blair and the Social Exclusion Unit.

The Inclusive Society?: Social Exclusion and New Labour

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Utopia as Method: The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society

Utopia as Method: The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society

The Inclusive Society?: Social Exclusion and New Labour