Table of Contents

Contents list
Notes on contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction – Laurence Davis
Part I Historical and philosophical overview
1. Anarchism and the dialectic of utopia – John P. Clark
Part II Antecedents of the anarchist literary utopia
2. Daoism as utopian or accommodationist: radical Daoism reexamined in
light of the Guodian Manuscripts – John A. Rapp
3. Diderot's *Supplément au voyage de Bougainville*: steps towards an
anarchist utopia – Peter G. Stillman
Part III Anti-capitalism and the anarchist utopian literary imagination
4. Everyone an artist: art, labour, anarchy, and utopia – Laurence Davis
5. Anarchist powers: B. Traven, Pierre Clastres, and the question of utopia – Nicholas Spencer
6. Utopia, anarchism and the political implications of emotions – Gisela Heffes
7. Anarchy in the archives: notes from the ruins of Sydney and Melbourne – Brian Greenspan
Part IV Free love: anarchist politics and utopian desire
8. Speaking desire: anarchism and free love as utopian performance in
fin de siècle Britain – Judy Greenway
9. Visions of the future: reproduction, revolution and regeneration in
American anarchist utopian fiction – Brigitte Koenig
10. Intimate fellows: utopia and chaos in the early post-Stonewall gay
liberation manifestos – Dominic Ording
Part V Rethinking revolutionary practice
11. Anarchism, utopianism and the politics of emancipation – Saul Newman
12. Anarchism and the politics of utopia – Ruth Kinna
13. 'The space now possible': anarchist education as utopian hope – Judith Suissa
14. Utopia in contemporary anarchism – Uri Gordon
Index

About the Author

Laurence Davis is Lecturer in Politics at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Ruth Kinna is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Loughborough University.