Introduction: Exploring ‘the utopian’ in political ideologies

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Notes

1. I am particularly grateful to Carissa Honeywell for the organisational work she undertook for this event. My thanks also to Michael Freeden for agreeing to include papers from this symposium in the journal, as well as for his editorial advice and guidance.

2. For some commentators, the decline of utopian thinking is insolubly tied to the purported decline of the figures of the public intellectual: R. Jacoby, The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in an Age of Apathy (New York: Basic Books, 1999).

3. See J. Gray, Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia (London: Penguin, 2007).

4. O. Wilde, Plays, Prose Writings and Poems (London: Denty, 1930).

5. See Ruth Levitas' essay (below).

6. K. Popper, The Open Society and its Enemies (New York: Harper & Row, 1962); and I. Berlin, The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas (London: Pimlico, 2003).

7. Gray, op. cit., Ref. 3.

8. K. Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia (London: Routledge, 1991).

9. See the contrasting accounts offered in: K. Kumar, Utopia and Anti Utopia in Modern Times (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987); R. Levitas, The Concept of Utopia (Hemel Hempstead: Philip Allan, 1990); and L. Sargisson, Contemporary Feminist Utopianism (London: Routledge, 1996).