Daniel Pinchbeck. 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl.(Book review)

Utopian Studies | March 22, 2008| | Copyright

Daniel Pinchbeck. 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2007. 411 pp. $14.95

In his first book, Breaking Open the Head, Daniel Pinchbeck employs an epistemological insight of Jean-Francois Lyotard concerning radical thinking: "Being prepared to think what thought is not prepared to think is what deserves the name of thinking." Such thinking is also an essential component of the thought experiments informing utopianism. Allowing for the constraints and contradictions embedded in utopian thought (especially elucidated in the works of ...

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