New England has long been fertile ground for experimental societies. One of the most influential utopian societies was formed close to home in West Roxbury. In 1841, a man named George Ripley bought ...

Is utopia just too utopian? Explore visions of utopia from Plato to bell hooks. Is utopia just too utopian? In this episode of Crash Course Political Theory, we’ll explore visions of utopia from Plato ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.32.3.0598 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/utopianstudies.32.3.0598 Copy URL See, e.g., Phillip E. Wegner, Imaginary ...

In 1516, British author and statesman Sir Thomas More published the book Utopia. The title was a play on the Greek words for the “good place” (eu-topos) and the “no place” (ou-topos). Utopia described ...

At least among the current neoliberal order’s dissidents, More’s imagination continue to inspire, 500 years after he shared it with the world. Although the work is divided into two books, to this day ...

With his new book Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation, philosopher William M. Paris makes an important contribution to several related conversations. Paris’s book ...