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Utopias: more than just myth
Limiting utopias to just ‘speculative myths’ denies their actual impact on historic living experience, believes HELEN MERCER
LIVING EXPERIENCE: Modernist housing estate on Grunwaldzki Square in Wroclaw, 1967-1975 by the multi-award winning architect Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak
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BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
Utopia in the age of survival
by SD Chrostowska
Stanford University Press, £17.99
THIS short book is a contribution to academic debates within the tradition of thought known as critical social theory — the “Frankfurt School” — which has included writers such as Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen Habermas.
The general outlook was one critical of capitalism but more in terms of class relations as a system of domination, rather than primarily of exploitation.
In the post-war years the “school” became characterised by vehement opposition to “actually existing socialism” in the Soviet Union.
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