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    A utopia ( / juːˈtoʊpiə / yoo-TOH-pee-ə) typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its members. [1] It was coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, which describes a fictional island society in the New World . Hypothetical utopias focus on, among other ...

  2. Apr 12, 2024 · The description of Utopia is put in the mouth of a mysterious traveler, Raphael Hythloday, in support of his argument that communism is the only cure against egoism in private and public life. More, in the dialogue, speaks in favour of mitigation of evil rather than cure, human nature being fallible.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  3. These two facets of utopianism as advanced in the present book—that is, the speculative and the hypothetical, or utopia as conjecture about, and utopia as possibility in, the future—amount, in fact, to the shift, discussed earlier, from identifying utopia with concrete visions and practices aimed at their materialization, and toward ...

    • SD Chrostowska
  4. Feb 21, 2024 · Utopia is most authentic when we cannot imagine it,” for we are “imprisoned in a non-utopian present.” --Jameson Utopia is a “desiring that allows us to see and feel beyond the quagmire of the present,” “to feel that this world is not enough,” to “disrupt the tyranny of the now,” to feel “an openness” to possibilities ...

  5. Utopias. and dystopias. Sir Thomas More ’s learned satire Utopia (1516)—the title is based on a pun of the Greek words eutopia (“good place”) and outopia (“no place”)—shed an analytic light on 16th-century England along rational, humanistic lines. Utopia portrayed an ideal society in a hypothetical “no-place” so that More ...

  6. UTOPIAS AND UTOPIANISM. The word utopia was invented by Thomas More, who published his famous Utopia (in Latin) in 1516. More coupled the Greek words ou (no, or not) and topos (place) to invent a name that has since passed into nearly universal currency. Further verbal play shows the close relation between utopia and eutopia, which means "the ...

  7. utopia, An ideal society whose inhabitants exist under seemingly perfect conditions. The word was coined by Sir Thomas More in his work Utopia (1516), which described a pagan and communist city-state whose institutions and policies were governed entirely by reason. Literary utopias are far older than their name.

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