
Re-Situating Utopia
Matthew Nicholson(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 14. November 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
120 pages
978-90-04-40119-8 (ISBN)
Description
In Re-Situating Utopia Matthew Nicholson argues that international law and international legal theory are dominated by a 'blueprint' utopianism that presents international law as the means of achieving a better global future. Contesting the dominance of this blueprintism, Nicholson argues that this approach makes international law into what philosopher Louis Marin describes as a "degenerate utopia" - a fantastical means of trapping thought and practice within contemporary social and political conditions, blocking any possibility that those conditions might be transcended. As an alternative, Nicholson argues for an iconoclastic international legal utopianism - Utopia not as a 'blueprint' for a better future, operating within the confines of existing social and political reality, but as a means of seeking to negate and exit from that reality - as the only way to maintain the idea that international law offers a path towards a truly better future.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
181 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-40119-8 (9789004401198)
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Person
Matthew Nicholson (Ph.D. 2013, UCL) is Assistant Professor in International Law at Durham Law School, Durham University. His work draws on philosophy, literary theory and history in an effort to develop a theory of international law that is responsive to contemporary realities and injustices.
Content
Re-Situating Utopia
?Matthew Nicholson
Abstract
?Keywords
?Acknowledgements
?Introduction: Blueprints and Iconoclasm
?Part 1: Iconoclastic Utopianism, or "Exiting the Series"
?Part 2: Blueprints
?Part 3: Utopia, "Degenerate Utopia," and Disneyland
?Part 4: Towards "World Other"
?Bibliography
?Matthew Nicholson
Abstract
?Keywords
?Acknowledgements
?Introduction: Blueprints and Iconoclasm
?Part 1: Iconoclastic Utopianism, or "Exiting the Series"
?Part 2: Blueprints
?Part 3: Utopia, "Degenerate Utopia," and Disneyland
?Part 4: Towards "World Other"
?Bibliography