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Several answers are found scattered in the history of utopianism; some indicate urgency, others do not. First, some intellectuals simply need to invent worlds. The construction of a utopia, even if only on paper, is a godlike act and resembles the creation of a fictional world by the nonutopian novelist.
In the history of Marx's thought and Marxism, this work is pivotal in the distinction between the concepts of utopian socialism and what Marx and the Marxists claimed as scientific socialism. Although utopian socialists shared few political, social, or economic perspectives, Marx and Engels argued that they shared certain intellectual ...
Dec 5, 2002 · Plato on utopia. First published Thu Dec 5, 2002; substantive revision Wed Dec 2, 2020. The Laws is one of Plato’s last dialogues. In it, he sketches the basic political structure and laws of an ideal city named Magnesia. Despite the fact that the Laws treats a number of basic issues in political and ethical philosophy as well as theology, it ...
- Chris Bobonich, Katherine Meadows
- 2002
Apr 12, 2024 · utopia, an ideal commonwealth whose inhabitants exist under seemingly perfect conditions. Hence utopian and utopianism are words used to denote visionary reform that tends to be impossibly idealistic.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Thomas More’s Utopia is one of the most iconic, translated, and influential texts of the European Renaissance, attracting enormous amounts of critical attention since its first publication in Latin in 1516. The first half of this editors’ Introduction places Utopia in the context of More’s life and the world in which he lived.
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.
