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.
Keywords: political uses; happiness; thompson; bentham ... See more keywords
[The political uses of prohibitionist "science:" The case of cannabis and psychedelics].
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DOI: 10.18294/sc.2020.2493
Abstract: This article analyzes the use of science as a political tool in prohibitionist logic, adopting an externalist perspective. Prohibitionism strives to have its political-moral precepts be considered scientific, that is, the result of an ideologically… read more here.
Keywords: political uses; science; uses prohibitionist; case cannabis ... See more keywords