HIST 367 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Totalitarianism, Fatalism, Ecological Crisis
HIST 367 – Week 3 – Sept 27, 2017
Establishing Boundaries; Problem of Definition; Reading Utopias
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Kumar
• Utopia an exclusively western ideal
• Began with More
Sargent
• Social dreaming
Mumford
• Utopias of escape
• Utopias of reconstruction
Levitas
• Pick up from last week
• Eutopia (good place) or Utopia (no place)
• Utopianism applied can be dangerous
• Idea of perfect society can lead to violence
• Utopia as containing 3 things
o Form – the literary genre
o Function – proposing an alt ’
o Content
• Ty’ ,
• Limiting
• Desire is constant – not hope
o Desire for a better way of life
• Disagrees with Sargent that social dreaming is universal and constant of humans
everywhere
• Desire is constant, but it expresses itself in as many ways as there are humans on earth
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