<p>“In Tamdgidi's critical study of Marxism and its troubled relationship to utopianism, the pull between what is and what should be is re-explored creatively, resulting in a new and promising utopistics, shorn of limiting dualisms and conceits. An equally rigorous and hopeful book.” <br />—Avery F. Gordon,University of California at Santa Barbara <br /><br />“Tamdgidi does the field of Marxist critique a great service in developing a more nonreductive dialectical method, laying bare self-defeating Eurocentric structures of thinking. Tamdgidi's suggestion—that utopistics must be a creative endeavor, to which all forms of knowledge and experience, Western and Eastern, scientific and otherwise, can and should critically contribute—is a major advance in the field of world-systems studies." <br />—Peter McLaren, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies,University of California at Los Angeles <br /><br />“The argument of Dr. Tamdgidi’s book, that anti-utopianism in the form of radical materialism of the later Marx jeopardizes the creative dimension of dialectical thought, offers a critique and theoretical response rooted in the complex forces of the self as lived. The work is a contribution in Marxist social thought, in that it is a part of the stream that offers arguments for reconsidering the early Marx, but it is also a work in agency-oriented dialectical social thought.” <br />—Lewis R. Gordon, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University and the Jay Newman Visiting Professor of Philosophy of Culture at Brooklyn College <br /><br />“All of Professor Tamdgidi’s broad knowledge in world-history and East/West epistemologies are powerfully condensed in Advancing Utopistics. His book is a tour-de-force in several fields of scholarship such as world-systems, sociology of knowledge, and Marxist sociology, recasting both Mannheim’s and Wallerstein’s concept of utopia. Here he develops a radical critique of what he calls the three component parts and errors of Marxism … His recasting of the dialectical method beyond the binary of idealism vs. materialism is an original and crucial contribution to sociological theory.” <br />—Ramón Grosfoguel, Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California at Berkeley </p>