Looking laterally: The literary utopia and the task of critical social theory

Looking laterally: The literary utopia and the task of critical social theory
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横向看:文学乌托邦和批判社会理论的任务

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10.1177/0011392120969758
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2020
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Davidson J
Davidson J
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本文主要探讨文学乌托邦对社会理论的价值。乍一看,文学乌托邦似乎与社会学无关,它对社会世界的富有想象力的描述既完全不同,也比我们自己的更好,似乎跳过了社会学研究的中心任务:对社会存在的诊断。在这篇文章中,作者旨在证明这是错误的:文学乌托邦化的传统对社会学有很大贡献。乌托邦作家,从16世纪的托马斯·莫尔到20世纪的乌苏拉·K·勒·奎因,发展了一种复杂而原创的社会批评模式。乌托邦文本,在实际存在的社会的斑驳和混合方面,创造了一些新的和令人惊讶的东西。从乌托邦的视角横向看待世界,增强了对当代社会主导关系的矛盾和压抑的意识。文学乌托邦通过两种方式实现这一点:第一,它展示了作者所在社会尚未实现的规范如何得以实现;第二,它揭示了在社会世界中存在但被否认的新生活方式的隐藏可能性。
This article is focused on exploring the value of literary utopias for social theory. The literary utopia, at first glance, appears irrelevant to sociology, its imaginative descriptions of social worlds both radically different and substantively better than our own seeming to skip over the central task of sociological enquiry: the diagnosis of society as it exists. In this article, the author aims to demonstrate that this is mistaken: the tradition of literary utopianising has much to contribute to sociology. Utopian authors, from Thomas More in the sixteenth century to Ursula K Le Guin in the twentieth, have developed a sophisticated and original mode of social critique. The utopian text, in bricolating and remixing aspects of actually existing society, creates something both new and astonishing. In looking laterally at the world from the perspective of utopia, consciousness of the contradictions and repressions of the dominant relations in contemporary society is sharpened. The literary utopia achieves this in two ways: first, it demonstrates how the not yet realised norms of the author’s society can be fulfilled and, second, it discloses the hidden possibilities for new ways of living that are present but denied in the social world.
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