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Article: Darko Suvin. "For Lack of Knowledge: on the Epistemology of Politics as Salvation.".(review of essay published in Working Papers in Cultural Studies)(Brief Article)
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- Utopian Studies
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- January 1, 2002
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Darko Suvin. "For Lack of Knowledge: On the Epistemology of Politics as Salvation."
Working Papers in Cultural Studies. Pullman, WA: Washington State University, 2001.1-32.
EVER A THOUGHTFUL and often provocative writer, Darko Suvin takes the temperature of today's world in his recent article entitled "For Lack of Knowledge." Suvin, a Brechtian scholar from Yugoslavia and well-known for his studies of science fiction, holds fast to the importance of Marxist theory in today's world. Rejecting the comparably recent theoretical development of Postmodernism as a "refusal of memory" and of history, he maintains his steadfast defense of Marxism. Yet, Suvin ...