The Term “Utopia,” Lewis Mumford once observed, can be taken to mean iether the ultimate in human hipe or the ultimate in human folly. Mumford also noted that Sir Thomas More, whose celebrated work introduced the term to modern political discourse, was aware of both meanings of the word when he pointed to its divergent Greek origins: eutopia, which means the good place; and outopia, which means no place. The ambiguity of “utopia” at once suggesting the grandeur of striving to reach “the good place” and the futility of searching for “no place” reflects the ambiquity inherent in utopian modes of thought and their ambigiuous relationship to history. For utopias are the product of trans historical moral ideals, and the relationship between moral demands and historical realities is a most tenuous and uncertain one. [download]
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