Controversial manifesto by acclaimed cultural theorist debated by leading writers “In An American Utopia, Jameson affirms the critical function of utopian thinking and the efficacies of the form itself. He insists that the fundamental function of utopias is to revive a sense of the future, which requires taking aim at the forces that prevent us from venturing out from the comfortingly familiar confines of the present.”
—Kathi Weeks

“Jameson … gives us good reasons to call back utopia from obscurity.”
—Rain Taxi