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- Title
Persistent Utopia.
- Authors
Abensour, Miguel
- Abstract
This article discusses the hope for achieving utopian society in the intellectual life of Europe. The different translations of the word Utopia from the Greek, which could render it nowhere or good place, are considered. The persistence of utopian thinking in the west is considered and the continually changing representation of social ideals is taken as evidence for the vitality of the concept as an underpinning of political ethics. Political philosophers including Auguste Blanqui, William Morris and Walter Benjamin are considered. The relationship between utopian thought and the development of revolutionary social movements in modernity is considered.
- Subjects
EUROPE; UTOPIAS in literature; REVOLUTIONARY social movements; POLITICAL messianism; SOCIAL forces; POLITICAL philosophy; MORRIS, William, 1834-1896; HISTORY; TWENTIETH century; INTELLECTUAL life
- Publication
Constellations: An International Journal of Critical & Democratic Theory, 2008, Vol 15, Issue 3, p406
- ISSN
1351-0487
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8675.2008.00501.x