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Power in Paradise: The Political Implications of Santos's Utopia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Eve Darian-Smith
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Abstract

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

—Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Common sense creates the folklore of the future, a relatively rigidified phase of popular knowledge in a given time and place.

Antonio Gramsci, Selections

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Review Essay
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , Winter 1998 , pp. 81 - 120
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1998 

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