Introduction: Utopia and Politics, by James D. Ingram Part I. Reviving Utopia 1. The History of Utopia and the Destiny of Its Critique, by Miguel Abensour 2. Is the Classic Concept of Utopia Ready for the Future?, by Richard Saage 3. Utopia and Natural Illusions, by Francisco Fernandez Buey Part II. Questioning Utopia 4. Marx and Utopia, by Franck Fischbach 5. General Wish or General Will? Political Possibility and Collective Capacity from Rousseau Through Marx, by Peter Hallward 6. After Utopia, Imagination?, by Etienne Balibar 7. A Strange Fate for Politics: Jameson's Dialectic of Utopian Thought, by John Grant Part III. Utopia and Radical Politics 8. The Reality of Utopia, by Michele Riot-Sarcey 9. Negativity and Utopia in the Global Justice Movement, by Michael Lowy 10. Utopianism and Prefiguration, by Ruth Kinna Part IV. Permanence of Utopia 11. The Senses and Uses of Utopia, by Jacques Ranciere 12. Realism, Wishful Thinking, Utopia, by Raymond Geuss 13. Desire and Shipwreck: Powers of the Vis Utopica, by Etienne Tassin Coda 14. Utopia, Alibi, by S. D. Chrostowska List of Contributors Index.