Utopias Are Not Fairy Tales but Rich Views of Constructive Ideas That Can Gradually Come True.
Contemporary International Relations Theory
Title: Assessment 2
Utopias are not fairy tales but rich views of constructive ideas that can gradually come true.
Context:
1. Introduction of utopian thought...........………………………………………..……p.3
2. Utopia, work and organisation...………………….……………………………..…...p.3-7
3. Utopia or ideology: Karl Mannheim and the place of theory……………..pp.7-8
4. Different utopias………………….................................................................................pp.8-9
5. Anarchy, utopia and the politics of nostalgia………………………….…..……pp.9-10
6. Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………….pp.10
The word utopia stands in common usage for the ultimate in human folly or human hope-vain dreams of perfection in a Never-Never Land or rational effort to remake man’s environment and his institutions and even his own erring nature, so as to enrich the possibilities of the common life (Mumford, 1922: 1). In the 16th century Sir Thomas More, the coiner of this word, was aware of both implications. Lest anyone else should miss them, he elaborated his paradox in a quatrain, which, unfortunately, has sometimes been omitted from English translation of his Utopia. In his little verse he explained that utopia might refer either to the Greek “eutopia”, which means the good place, or to “outopia”, which means no place (Mumford, 1922: 1).
Utopia has long been another name for the unreal and the impossible. As a matter or fact, it is people’s utopias that make the word tolerable to people: the cities and mansions that people dreams of are those in which they finally live. The more that men react upon their environment and make it over after a human pattern, the more continuously do they live in utopia; but when there is a breach between the world of affairs and the over world of utopia, people become conscious of the part that the will-to-utopia has played in people’s lives, and we see world utopia as a separate reality.
Since utopias
Title: Assessment 2
Utopias are not fairy tales but rich views of constructive ideas that can gradually come true.
Context:
1. Introduction of utopian thought...........………………………………………..……p.3
2. Utopia, work and organisation...………………….……………………………..…...p.3-7
3. Utopia or ideology: Karl Mannheim and the place of theory……………..pp.7-8
4. Different utopias………………….................................................................................pp.8-9
5. Anarchy, utopia and the politics of nostalgia………………………….…..……pp.9-10
6. Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………….pp.10
The word utopia stands in common usage for the ultimate in human folly or human hope-vain dreams of perfection in a Never-Never Land or rational effort to remake man’s environment and his institutions and even his own erring nature, so as to enrich the possibilities of the common life (Mumford, 1922: 1). In the 16th century Sir Thomas More, the coiner of this word, was aware of both implications. Lest anyone else should miss them, he elaborated his paradox in a quatrain, which, unfortunately, has sometimes been omitted from English translation of his Utopia. In his little verse he explained that utopia might refer either to the Greek “eutopia”, which means the good place, or to “outopia”, which means no place (Mumford, 1922: 1).
Utopia has long been another name for the unreal and the impossible. As a matter or fact, it is people’s utopias that make the word tolerable to people: the cities and mansions that people dreams of are those in which they finally live. The more that men react upon their environment and make it over after a human pattern, the more continuously do they live in utopia; but when there is a breach between the world of affairs and the over world of utopia, people become conscious of the part that the will-to-utopia has played in people’s lives, and we see world utopia as a separate reality.
Since utopias
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