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    Touraine focuses on utopias as political vessels and ideas. Write out two analytical questions that you would like to discuss in class. Do you agree with Touraine's view of utopias not gaining the traction they required until they became purely political? Do you think there is another genre or type of utopia subject that has the same possible power.

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    Touraine focuses on utopias as political vessels and ideas. Write out two analytical questions that you would like to discuss in class. Do you agree with Touraine's view of utopias not gaining the traction they required until they became purely political? Do you think there is another genre or type of utopia subject that has the same possible power.

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    Touraine focuses on utopias as political vessels and ideas. Write out two analytical questions that you would like to discuss in class. Do you agree with Touraine's view of utopias not gaining the traction they required until they became purely political? Do you think there is another genre or type of utopia subject that has the same possible power.

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    ReadingQuestionsforTouraine

    A.Summarizethemainpointsofthearticleinoneparagraphinyourownwords.
    Onceagain,amaintalkingpointofthisreading,andIimaginethisclass,isMores
    Utopia.Inthisreading,Tourainefocusesonutopiasaspoliticalvesselsandideas,which
    iswherethefocusremainsforthispiece.WereadaboutThomasMore,CharlesFourier,
    GeorgeOrwell,KarlManneheim,andErnstBloch.Subjectssuchastotalitarianism,
    socialism,communism,anddemocracyarediscussed.Utopiaandthedefinitionofutopia
    didnotcomeintofulleffectorfruitionuntilitearnedanidentity.

    B.Writeouttwoanalyticalquestionsthatyouwouldliketodiscussinclass.Pay
    particularattentiontothemes,aesthetics(form,metaphor,simile,image),philosophy,etc.
    Notethepagenumberofoneortwoexamples,sothatwecanturntothemwhenwe
    discussyourquestioninclass.
    1.DoyouagreewithTouralinesviewofutopiasnotgainingthetractiontheyrequired
    untiltheybecamepurelypolitical?Doyouthinkthereisanothergenreortypeofutopia
    subjectthathasthesamepossiblepowertoinfluencesocities?
    2.(Page29)IfBlochsapproachislinkedtothepresent,whereisMarxsapproach
    linked?

    Factualquestionsorquestionofcontentshouldbebroughtupwhenwearediscussinga
    questionthatrelatestoyourfactualquestion.

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