A defense of the radical imagination from a scholar of social movements.
Political theorist and philosopher Richard Gilman-Opalsky’s Imaginary Power, Real Horizons is a tribute to the imagination and to its necessity for liberatory struggle. “‘Impractical’ is the name given to anyone who imagines something radically other than what exists, ” he writes. However, many things—such as the abolition of slavery—were dismissed as impractical before they came to be.
In a ...
قائمة المحتويات
Introduction: A Question of Imagination: What Can it Mean to Be a Communist Today?
Chapter 1: Theory as an Everyday Thing
Chapter 2: Inver...
عن المؤلف
Richard Gilman-Opalsky is professor of political theory and philosophy in the School of Politics and International Affairs at the University of Illinois. He is author of s...