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Re-Situating Utopia

by Matthew Nicholson

  • Paperback
  • 120 pages
  • Publisher: Brill
  • 15.5 x 23.2 x 1.1 cm

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For legal theorists and philosophy enthusiasts

Challenges current ideas about a better future

Inspires you to rethink how law builds our world

A critical investigation into the role of utopian thought in international legal theory.

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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.

  • Title

    Re-Situating Utopia

  • Author

    Matthew Nicholson

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Brill

  • Published

    November 2019

  • Weight

    182g

  • Page Count

    120

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 23.2 x 1.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9789004401198

  • ISBN-10

    9004401199

  • Eden Code

    5610034