{"product_id":"a-hopeful-political-imagination-courage-and-fantastic-critique-in-the-age-of-meltdown-9781666974454","title":"A Hopeful Political Imagination: Courage and Fantastic Critique in the Age of Meltdown","description":"\u003cb\u003eBringing political criticism, a variety of theoretical approaches, and the author's concrete experiences together, this book offers a political definition of hope as a utopian signifier, rooted in concrete processes of historical differentiation.\u003c\/b\u003e Oscar Guardiola-Rivera addresses the problem of current limitations to the exercise of political imagination which severely contain, encrypt, and obscure our vision of social alternatives and normative possibilities? While grounding ethical and political stances on liberation philosophy and the anthropology of visual systems, \u003ci\u003eA Hopeful Political Imagination: Courage and Fantastic Critique in the Age of Meltdown\u003c\/i\u003e engages in dialogue with theories of encryption, a-legality, and the critique of anthropological absolutism coming from decolonial and ecological approaches. It allows us to understand 'decryption' as reversing encrypting linguistic and spatial processes in modernity, and proposes a new approach called 'fantastic critique' to reinvent the dynamics of power, judgement, time and the imagination, based on historical, literary, and philosophical examples. This book recovers and reimagines principles of hope and courage as republican, ethical virtues of revelation of what is figured and made in movement together, for practical action.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOscar Guardiola-Rivera \u003c\/b\u003eteaches international law and international affairs at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has served as an aide to the Colombian Congress and as a consultant to the United Nations in South America. He has lectured in law, philosophy and politics on three continents, and is the author of \u003ci\u003eWhat if Latin America Ruled the World?: How the South Will Take the North into the 22nd Century\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51705025724690,"sku":"9781666974454","price":126.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3e24da1c-b38b-4ca3-8120-dfbb5642c768.jpg?v=1762337369","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-hopeful-political-imagination-courage-and-fantastic-critique-in-the-age-of-meltdown-9781666974454","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}