Political Uses of Utopia: New Marxist, Anarchist, and Radical Democratic Perspectives. Edited by S. D. Chrostowska and James D. Ingram. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. 376p. $105 cloth, $35 paper.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592717003437
Abstract: formation to achieve Bentham’s ideal of happiness maximization. With Thompson making this move, Kaswan believes that Bentham’s bourgeois individualism is unmasked: together, they are read as precursors of Antonio Gramsci’s theory of capitalist hegemony. Subjective… read more here.
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