THE RATIONALIST CRITIQUE OF UTOPIAN THINKING: ISLAND OF FOOLS AND OTHER ANTI-UTOPIAN CLASSICS
During 17th-18th centuries, the pressure exercised by combined critiques due to religious ideology and later on by rationalist mentality rendered utopias suspect to the eyes of many authors. Christian counter-utopists, ranging from Joseph Hall to Jonathan Swift, accepted and adopted the dogmas rela...
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| description | During 17th-18th centuries, the pressure exercised by combined critiques due to
religious ideology and later on by rationalist mentality rendered utopias suspect to the eyes of many authors. Christian counter-utopists, ranging from Joseph Hall to Jonathan Swift, accepted and adopted the dogmas related to the Lost Earthly Paradise and Man’s Cursed City, transforming the utopian space into hell on earth, into monstrous kingdoms that would rival Dante’s circles. In turn, humanist counter-utopists, skeptical regarding man’s capacity of establishing a perfect society, found other means of expressing their incredulity as well as their sarcasms. They imagined madmen islands and kingdoms of fouls, demonstrating, by reductio ab absurdum, that the application of the ideals of reason to social programs would only led to nightmarish societies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ca884244bd384f959dfd5da4a2d9535b2023-11-02T07:43:15ZengBucharest University PressUniversity of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series2734-59632022-02-01I/20112THE RATIONALIST CRITIQUE OF UTOPIAN THINKING: ISLAND OF FOOLS AND OTHER ANTI-UTOPIAN CLASSICSCorin BragaDuring 17th-18th centuries, the pressure exercised by combined critiques due to religious ideology and later on by rationalist mentality rendered utopias suspect to the eyes of many authors. Christian counter-utopists, ranging from Joseph Hall to Jonathan Swift, accepted and adopted the dogmas related to the Lost Earthly Paradise and Man’s Cursed City, transforming the utopian space into hell on earth, into monstrous kingdoms that would rival Dante’s circles. In turn, humanist counter-utopists, skeptical regarding man’s capacity of establishing a perfect society, found other means of expressing their incredulity as well as their sarcasms. They imagined madmen islands and kingdoms of fouls, demonstrating, by reductio ab absurdum, that the application of the ideals of reason to social programs would only led to nightmarish societies.http://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/CorinBraga.pdfutopiadystopiafrancesco donirichard bromeedward wardjonathan swiftgabriel françois coyer |
| spellingShingle | Corin Braga THE RATIONALIST CRITIQUE OF UTOPIAN THINKING: ISLAND OF FOOLS AND OTHER ANTI-UTOPIAN CLASSICS University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series utopia dystopia francesco doni richard brome edward ward jonathan swift gabriel françois coyer |
| title | THE RATIONALIST CRITIQUE OF UTOPIAN THINKING: ISLAND OF FOOLS AND OTHER ANTI-UTOPIAN CLASSICS |
| title_full | THE RATIONALIST CRITIQUE OF UTOPIAN THINKING: ISLAND OF FOOLS AND OTHER ANTI-UTOPIAN CLASSICS |
| title_fullStr | THE RATIONALIST CRITIQUE OF UTOPIAN THINKING: ISLAND OF FOOLS AND OTHER ANTI-UTOPIAN CLASSICS |
| title_full_unstemmed | THE RATIONALIST CRITIQUE OF UTOPIAN THINKING: ISLAND OF FOOLS AND OTHER ANTI-UTOPIAN CLASSICS |
| title_short | THE RATIONALIST CRITIQUE OF UTOPIAN THINKING: ISLAND OF FOOLS AND OTHER ANTI-UTOPIAN CLASSICS |
| title_sort | rationalist critique of utopian thinking island of fools and other anti utopian classics |
| topic | utopia dystopia francesco doni richard brome edward ward jonathan swift gabriel françois coyer |
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