Imaginary Power, Real Horizons: The Practicality of Utopianism

by Richard Gilman-Opalsky

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184935555X
• ISBN13: 9781849355551
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: AK Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"