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The liberal order is decaying. Will it survive, and if not, what will replace it? On the eightieth anniversary of the publication of E.H. Carr's The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939, Philip Cunliffe revisits this classic text, juxtaposing its claims with contemporary debates on the rise and fall of the liberal international order. The New Twenty Years' Crisis reveals that the liberal international order experienced a twenty-year cycle of decline from 1999 to 2019. In contrast to claims that the order has been undermined by authoritarian challengers, Cunliffe argues that the primary drivers of the crisis are internal. He shows that the heavily ideological international relations theory that has developed since the end of the Cold War is clouded by utopianism, replacing analysis with aspiration and expressing the interests of power rather than explaining its functioning. As a result, a growing tendency to discount political alternatives has made us less able to adapt to political change. In search of a solution, this book argues that breaking through the current impasse will require not only dissolving the new forms of utopianism, but also pushing past the fear that the twenty-first century will repeat the mistakes of the twentieth. Only then can we finally escape the twenty years' crisis. By reflecting on Carr's foundational work, The New Twenty Years' Crisis offers an opportunity to take stock of the current state of international order and international relations theory.

International relations --- Philosophy. --- Carr, Edward Hallett, --- Utopia.

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"No longer imminent, the End is immanent." "Ends are ends," Frank Kermode goes on to clarify, "only when they are not negative but frankly transfigure the events in which they were immanent." From its imminence to its immanence, not "negative," "no longer," but transformative, how is "the End" in turn "transfigured"? In what may ending be said then to consist? To "the end times" of apocalypse and eschatology Giorgio Agamben, following Gianni Carchia, opposes messianism and "messianic time"--to the end of time, in a formula, the time of the end. To the writings of those for whom to philosophize is to learn how to die--from Plato to Montaigne and beyond--one may oppose, in like manner, the writings of Spinoza, who "thinks of death least of all things"--"for nature is Messianic by reason of its eternal and total passing away," as Benjamin writes--and so in whose pages "wisdom," transfigured, "is a meditation on life."

Ethics. --- Philosophy --- Political aspects. --- philosophy --- utopia --- philology --- poetics --- parables

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"Utopia has a strong claim to be the most misunderstood book ever written: its flame has been hijacked by countless idealistic schemes having little in common with More's own assessment of social possibilities. For although it contributes to a line of argument that can be traced from Plato to Marx, Utopia is first and foremost a literary work that appeals to the imagination and seeks to question us rather than to proffer answers." "This study prepares the reader for these challenges, placing the work in the context of early sixteenth-century Europe and the intellectual preoccupations of More's own humanist circle, and clarifying those sources in classical and Christian political thought that provoked his writing." "Utopia is presented as a reflection on political idealism, one that has lost none of its relevance in an age that has witnessed the collapse of Marxist aspirations to social control. Dominic Baker-Smith also surveys the varied critical reception accorded to Utopia over the last four centuries, providing a look at Utopia's role in cultural history."--Jacket

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General. --- More, Thomas, --- 873.4 MORE, THOMAS --- 873.4 MORE, THOMAS Humanistisch Latijnse literatuur--MORE, THOMAS --- Humanistisch Latijnse literatuur--MORE, THOMAS --- Utopia (More, Thomas, Saint) --- De optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia, libri II (More, Thomas, Saint) --- Thomae Mori Utopia (More, Thomas, Saint) --- Utopia (More, Thomas, Sir, Saint) --- English literature --- History and criticism.

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Queer Insists is a memorial essay, a work of mourning, written for the queer theorist and performance scholar Jose Esteban Muñoz (1967-2013) shortly after his untimely death in December 2013. In a series of fragments, not unlike Roland Barthes's Mourning Diary, Michael O'Rourke shares memories of Muñoz, the stories and reflections of his friends in the wake of his passing, and readings of his work from Disidentifications to Cruising Utopia and beyond. O'Rourke argues that, for Muñoz, queer does not exist, per se, but rather insists, soliciting us from the future to-come. Muñoz reached towards teleopoietic worlds as he invented a queer theory we have yet to find, but are invited to glimpse.Among the Muñozian themes this chapbook discusses are hope, utopia, affect, punk rock, heresy, the undercommons, temporality, hauntology, forgetting, loss, ephemera, partage, sense, incommensurability, the event and democracy.In reading Muñoz as a Rogue Theorist, this book borrows many of the gifts we have received (and have yet to receive) from him, marking the force and luminescence of his thought, and insisting upon the rare and precious singularity of his work. Muñoz bequeaths to us a queer studies without condition which it is our duty to foster and to bear as we carry it and him into the unknowable futures of an indiscipline.

Queer theory. --- José Esteban Muñoz --- queer studies --- rogue theory --- utopia --- memorial

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Thomas Morus' „Von der besten Staatsverfassung und von der neuen Insel Utopia, ein wahrhaft goldenes Büchlein, genauso wohltuend wie heiter“ ist ein Klassiker der Politischen Philosophie. Das 1516 erstmals erschienene Buch prägte die spätere Tradition fiktiver Staatsmodelle. Der Name 'Utopia' bezeichnet nämlich ein „Nirgendwo“, durch dessen Unauffindbarkeit alle Sehnsüchte in eine unerreichbare Ferne projiziert werden. Als Utopie gilt somit eine Vorstellung, die als Idee zwar denkbar, aber nicht unmittelbar umzusetzen ist. Sie ist Wunschtraum, Konzept und Vision einer Welt oder einer Zeit, in der eine neue gesellschaftliche, religiöse oder technische Ordnung herrscht. Der Band hinterfragt, mit welchen Chancen auf gesellschaftspolitische Diskussion heute überhaupt noch fiktive Staatsmodelle ausgearbeitet werden können. Sind z.B. die modernen, weltweit stark rezipierten Entwürfe wie Rawls' Theorie der Gerechtigkeit, No-zicks' Anarchie, Staat, Utopia oder die Sphären der Gerechtigkeit von Walzer als Utopien zu klassifizieren? Oder sind die fiktiven Elemente in ihnen so realitätsnah, daß man sie nicht mehr als utopisch beschreiben kann? Brauchen wir überhaupt Utopien, um in der Lage zu sein, neue, „zukunftsfähige“ Modelle der politischen Organisation einer Gesellschaft zu entwerfen? Oder ist die Politische Philosophie so saturiert, daß selbst unter dem Veränderungsdruck der Globalisierung in absehbarer Zeit mit neuen Staatsutopien nicht zu rechnen sein wird?

Philosophy --- Politische Philosophie --- Utopie --- Gemeinwesen --- Staat --- Gesellschaft --- Rechtsphilosophie --- Sozialphilosophie --- Liberalismus --- Political philosophy --- Utopia --- Community --- Society --- Legal philosophy --- Social philosophy --- Liberalism