The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed

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The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed is written by Laurence Davis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1978798156 (ISBN 10) and 9781978798151 (ISBN 13).

The Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz as 'The most striking description I know of the seductions-and snares-of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society.' To date, however, the radical social, cultural, and political ramifications of Le Guin's multiple award-winning novel remain woefully under explored. Editors Laurence Davis and Peter Stillman right this state of affairs in the first ever collection of original essays devoted to Le Guin's novel. Among the topics covered in this wide-ranging, international and interdisciplinary collection are the anarchist, ecological, post-consumerist, temporal, revolutionary, and open-ended utopian politics of The Dispossessed. The book concludes with an essay by Le Guin written specially for this volume, in which she reassesses the novel in light of the development of her own thinking over the past 30 years.