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100			_aAlexander, Jeffrey C.
245			_aRobust Utopias and civil repairs
260			_c2001
300			_ap.579-91.
362			_aDEC
520			_aIn the wake of Marxism, the decline of socialism and the debacle of state Communism, critical social theory must be saved from the narrow letter of the Frankfurt School, though not from its utopian spirit. Criticizing the totalizing packages of modernist utopias, this article tries to sustain the idea of utopia and its connection to critical social thought. It suggests that self-limiting, partial and plural utopias inform the social and cultural struggles of contemporary life. There has not been an end to utopian thought and action, but a movement away from socialism to movements of difference, movements to create an ecologically harmonious society. In conclusion, the suggestion is made that what unites and underlies these movements is not a totalizing project, but the shared aim of producing a more civil society.
650			_aUtopia
773			_aInternational Sociology
909			_a52014
999			_c52014 _d52014