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Re-Situating Utopia

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Re-Situating Utopia

Name: Re-Situating Utopia
Brand: Brill Academic Publishers
SKU: 9789004401198
Price: 1037.40 HKD
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Author: Matthew Nicholson
ISBN: 9789004401198

By Matthew Nicholson

Brill Academic Publishers November 2019

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ISBN-13: 9789004401198
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Publication: November 2019
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: Netherlands ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

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