Utopia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7077540 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David W Lovell (0000-0002-2045-3731, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosu025 |
| OpenAlex | W4213187492 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Utopia is a type of imaginary ideal society. It generally takes a literary form, but it plays a role in social and political thought. From being playful, “utopian” has become a term of opprobrium, warning that a proposed scheme for improvement is not just impossible, it is perfidious. For there is a wide range of (different and often incompatible) notions of what is “ideal,” and attempting to realize one person's dream may become another's nightmare
Aesthetics · Astronomy · Dream · Dystopia · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics · Nightmare · Physics · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Term (time · The Imaginary · Utopia · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychology · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |