Published: 2018-06-30

The Unbearable Utopianism of Utopism

Grażyna Osika

Abstract

Grażyna Osika
The Technical University of Silesia
Faculty of Organization and Management
Department of Applied Social Sciences
Gliwice, Poland

The Unbearable Utopianism of Utopism


Abstract: The article critically examines the category of utopianism. It is an attempt to expose its both irremovable and disappointing features that make utopianism an ineffective tool to change the world for better. The rational instruments, unfortunately, are not sufficient to design a eutopia – a place of supreme happiness – because of the fragmentation of points of view taken on utopianism and its persuasive character necessary to disseminate  every utopian vision. The article proposes to replace the utopian methodology for building a better world with so-called piecemeal social engineering and thinking in terms of ecotopia, that is gradual, adaptive changes in the environment of our life. The analysis includes M. C. Nussbaum’s ideas for improving educational systems.

Keywords: utopia, utopianism, ecotopia, piecemeal social engineering

JEL Codes

Methodology, Philosophy of Humanities

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Osika, G. (2018). The Unbearable Utopianism of Utopism. Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, 1(36). Retrieved from https://trrest.vot.pl/ojsus/index.php/ERRGO/article/view/4987

ER(R)GO No. 36 (1/2018) - utopias/illusions/longings (guest edited by Beata Wojewoda)

No. 36 (2018)
Published: 2018-09-28


ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186
Ikona DOI 10.31261/errgo

Publisher
University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"

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