The New Utopian Politics Of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed

Author: Laurence Davis (Editor, Contribution by); Peter Stillman (Editor); Tony Burns (Contribution by); Claire Curtis (Contribution by); Winter Elliot (Contribution by); Chris Ferns (Contribution by); Everett Hamner (Contribution by); Ursula K. Le Guin (Contribution by); Avery Plaw (Contribution by); Andrew Reynolds (Contribution by); Ellen Rigsby (Contribution by); Jennifer Rodgers (Contribution by); Dan Sabia (Contribution by); Bülent Somay (Contribution by); Douglas Spencer (Contribution by); Simon Stow (Contribution by); Mark Tunick (Contribution by)

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Author : Laurence Davis (Editor, Contribution by); Peter Stillman (Editor); Tony Burns (Contribution by); Claire Curtis (Contribution by); Winter Elliot (Contribution by); Chris Ferns (Contribution by); Everett Hamner (Contribution by); Ursula K. Le Guin (Contribution by); Avery Plaw (Contribution by); Andrew Reynolds (Contribution by); Ellen Rigsby (Contribution by); Jennifer Rodgers (Contribution by); Dan Sabia (Contribution by); Bülent Somay (Contribution by); Douglas Spencer (Contribution by); Simon Stow (Contribution by); Mark Tunick (Contribution by)
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The Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz as 'The most striking description I know of the seductions-and snares-of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society.' To date, however, the radical social, cultural, and political ramifications of Le Guin's multiple award-winning novel remain woefully under explored. Editors Laurence Davis and Peter Stillman right this state of affairs in the first ever collection of original essays devoted to Le Guin's novel. Among the topics covered in this wide-ranging, international and interdisciplinary collection are the anarchist, ecological, post-consumerist, temporal, revolutionary, and open-ended utopian politics of The Dispossessed. The book concludes with an essay by Le Guin written specially for this volume, in which she reassesses the novel in light of the development of her own thinking over the past 30 years.