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Article: The New Sense of Utopia: The Construction of a Society Based on Justice.
- Article from:
- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2000
- Author:
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1. The advancement of our research into utopia and the emergence of justice(1)
IT IS DURING OUR RESEARCH INTO UTOPIA, its history and its meaning, that we encounter justice and the just society. We had already discerned that literary utopia alone could not provide us with any answers to this phenomenon since it is far greater, more grand.(2) We had already seen the signs of this in present-century stories of utopia (starting with Mumford, right up to the Manuels and beyond) which centred on the literary, but which inevitably evoked and briefly contemplated facts of far greater historical importance: Jewish Messianism, millenarism and Christianity. We already had ...
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