Utopia

A utopia or eutopia typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or almost perfect features for its members. It was coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing the fictional island society in the New World. However, it may also denote an intentional community. In common parlance, the word or its adjectival work may be used synonymously with "impossible", "far-fetched" or "deluded".

Hypothetical utopias focus on—amongst other things—equality, in such(a) categories as economics, government as well as justice, with the method as well as structure of exposed implementation varying based on ideology. Lyman Tower Sargent argues that the vintage of a utopia is inherently contradictory because societies are non homogeneous and produce desires which conflict and therefore cannot simultaneously be satisfied. To quote:

There are socialist, capitalist, monarchical, democratic, anarchist, ecological, feminist, patriarchal, egalitarian, hierarchical, racist, left-wing, right-wing, reformist, free love, nuclear family, extended family, gay, lesbian and numerous more utopias [ Naturism, Nude Christians, ...] Utopianism, some argue, is fundamental for the service of the human condition. But whether used wrongly, it becomes dangerous. Utopia has an inherent contradictory family here.

The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia or cacotopia image not much discussed until the 19th century, and for which dystopia has become the most popular literary category.

Etymology and history

The word ]. However, in standard usage, the word's meaning has shifted and now commonly describes a non-existent society that is listed to be viewed as considerably better than sophisticated society.

In his original work, More carefully talked out the similarity of the word to eutopia, meaning “good place”, from Eighty‑Four.

In 1876, writer Charles Renouvier published a novel called Uchronia French Uchronie. The neologism, using chronos instead of topos, has since been used to refer to non-existent idealized times in fiction, such(a) as Philip Roth's The Plot Against America 2004, and Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle 1962.

According to the Philosophical Dictionary, proto-utopian ideas begin as early as the period of peasant revolts and determining themselves in the period of the early capitalism, reformation and Renaissance Hus, Müntzer, More, Campanella, democratic revolutions Meslier, Morelly, Mably, Winstanley, later Babeufists, Blanquists, and in a period of turbulent developing of capitalism that highlighted antagonisms of capitalist society Saint-Simon, Fourier, Owen, Cabet, Lamennais, Proudhon and their followers.