Utopia – Notes From: Sargent, Lyman Tower; UTOPIANISM – a Very Short Introduction; OXFORD, Univ

Utopia – notes from: Sargent, Lyman Tower; UTOPIANISM – A Very Short Introduction; OXFORD, Univ. Press; 2010 Lyman Tower Sargent (born 9 February 1940) is an American academic, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Sargent's main academic interests are in utopian studies, political theory, American studies and bibliography. He is one Introduction (Han inleder med en rad citat) of the world's foremost scholars on utopian studies, founding editor of Utopian Studies, serving in that post for the journal's first fifteen years, and recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Society for Utopian Studies.[1] Sargent was educated as an undergraduate at Macalester College and as a graduate student at the University of Minnesota. Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936) is an American poet, novelist, Dreams are the fire in us. Marge Piercy and social activist. Piercy is the author of Woman on the Edge of Time; He, She and It, which won the 1993 Arthur C. Clarke Award; and Gone to Soldiers, a New York Times Best Seller[1] and sweeping historical novel set during World War II. A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realization of utopias. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November Oscar Wilde 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. The last thing we really need is more utopian visions. Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (/ˈwɔːlәrstiːn/;[4] born September 28, Immanuel Wallerstein 1930) is an American sociologist, historical social scientist, and world- systems analyst, arguably best known for his development of the general approach in sociology which led to the emergence of his world-systems approach.[5] He publishes bimonthly syndicated commentaries on world affairs.[6] So this is utopia, Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm (24 August 1872 – 20 May 1956) was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist. He first became Is it? Well – known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist. He was the drama critic for the Saturday Review from 1898 until 1910, when he relocated I beg your pardon; to Rapallo, Italy. In his later years he was popular for his occasional radio broadcasts. Among his best-known works is his only novel, I thought it was Hell Max Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson, published in 1911. His caricatures, drawn usually in pen or pencil with muted watercolour tinting, are in many public collections. Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC (25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer; his books on British history have been hailed as literary masterpieces.[1] Macaulay held political office as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and the Paymaster-General between 1846 and 1848. He played a major role in introducing English and western concepts to education in An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in India, publishing his argument on the subject in the "Macaulay Minute" published in 1835. He supported the replacement of Persian Utopia. The smallest actual good is better than the most by English as the official language, the use of English as the medium of instruction in all schools, and the training of English-speaking Magnificent promises of impossibilities. Indians as teachers.[1] Thomas Babington Macauley Les utopies ne sont souvent que des verités prématurées. Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine, chevalier de Pratz (French: [alfɔs maʁi lwi dәpʁa dә lamaʁtin]; 21 October 1790 – 28 February 1869), was a French writer, poet and politician who was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic and the continuation of the Tricolore as the flag of France. p2 The word ’utopia’ was coined by Thomas More as the name of the imaginry country he described in his short 1516 book written in latin and published Libellus vere aureus nec minus salutaris quam festivus de optimo reip[ublicae] statu, deq[ue] noua Insula Utopia – Concerning the Best State of a Commonwealth and New Island of Utopia. A Truly Golden Handbook No Less Beneficial Than Entertaining. – now known as Utopia. Sir Thomas More (/ˈmɔːr/; 7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated by Roman Catholics as Saint Thomas More,[1][2] was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was also a councillor to Henry VIII, and Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to 16 May 1532.[3] He also wrote Utopia, published in 1516, about the political system of an imaginary ideal island nation. The word is based on the Greek topos meaning place or where, and ‘u’ from the prefix ‘ou’ meaning no or not. … More gives the reader a poem that calls Utopia ‘Eutopia’ (Happy Land or good place) … … In Utopia, more depicted a ship discovering an unknown island, which has established a society based on far-reaching equality but under the authority of wise, elderly men. It is hierarchical and patriarchal; it has very strict laws with harsh punishments; ant it provides a much better life for its citizen than was available to the p4 citizens of England at that time. … It is this showing of everyday life transformed that characterizes a utopia, and utopianism is about just that transformation of the everyday. While the word ‘utopia’ was coined by More, the idea already had a long and complex history. … utopian has, from very early on, been a way of dismissing it as unrealistic. … such visions, occur in the earliest written records we have, such as a Sumerian clay tablet from 2000 BCE. The earliest utopias were very like dreams, completely out of human control, something that would come about naturally or because some god willed it. p5 All utopias ask questions. They ask whether or not the way we live could be improved and answer that it could. Most utopias compare life in the present and life in the utopia and point out what is wrong with the way we now live, thus suggesting what needs to be done to improve things. As with most topics, there are definitional disagreements. One issue that regularly confuses people stems from the failure to make the distinction between utopianism as a general category and the utopia as a literary genre. … … The range of the word can be seen in the description by the Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski of the process by which a word that emerged as an artificially concocted Leszek Kołakowski (Polish: [ˈlɛʂɛk kɔwaˈkɔfskʲi]; 23 October 1927 – 17 proper name has acquired, in the last two centuries, July 2009) was a Polish philosopher and historian of ideas. He is best known for his critical analyses of Marxist thought, especially his three- a sense so extended that it refers not only to a volume history, Main Currents of Marxism (1976). In his later work, literary genre but to a way of thinking, to a Kolakowski increasingly focused on religious questions. In his 1986 mentality, to a philosophical attitude, and is being Jefferson Lecture, he asserted that "We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.”[3] employed in depicting cultural phenomena going back into antiquity. Here Kolakowski demonstrates the complexity of utopianism as it has evolved. I have called utopianism ‘social dreaming’. The sociologist Ruth Levitas calls it ‘the desire for a better way of being’, with the utopia as an aspect of the ‘education of desire’. Within these broad categories are what I call ‘the three faces of utopianism’ – the literary utopia, utopian practice, and utopian social theory. And, as the quotations at the head of the chapter make clear, the word has come to mean different things to different people. Ruth Levitas is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Bristol. She is well known internationally for her research on utopia. Her book, The Concept of Utopia (1990), addresses the notion of the ideal society throughout European history. She is recently credited for formulating a program of sociology which is fundamentally utopian-focused in conventional sociological discourse. She also introduced the concepts of MUD (the moral underclass discourse), SID (the social integration discourse), and RED (the redistribution discourse), as tools for analysing social exclusion. One of Ruth's most notable books is The Inclusive Society?: Social Exclusion and New Labour, which introduced the idea of social exclusion as part of the new political language. P6 Scholars today generally use one of two quite similar definitions for the literary utopia: the first is the literary theorist Darko Suvin’s, the second is mine: Darko Ronald Suvin (born Darko Šlesinger; July 19, 1930) is a Croatian born academic and critic who became a Professor at McGill The verbal construction of a particular quasi- University in Montreal — now emeritus.[1] He was born in Zagreb, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now capital of Croatia), and after teaching human community where sociopolitical institutions, at the department for comparative literature at Zagreb University, norms and individual relationships are organized moved to Canada in 1968. according to a more perfect principle than in the author’s community, this construction being based He is best known for several major works of criticism and literary history on estrangement arising out of an alternative devoted to science fiction.

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