utopia
thumb|This is the woodcut for Utopia's map as it appears in Thomas More's Utopia printed by Dirk Martens in December 1516 (the first edition).
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Utopia is a fictional island described in Thomas More's 1516 book of the same name, depicted in an imaginary map that accompanied the original publication. The work matters because it introduced a influential literary and philosophical concept of an idealized society, establishing a genre that has shaped how people imagine and discuss alternative social arrangements.
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Research
1,603 papers- Phenotyping the obesities: reality or utopia?ReviewReviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2023Portincasa P, Frühbeck GDOI: 10.1007/s11154-023-09829-x
- Seeking utopia: Psychologies' waves toward decoloniality.ReviewAmerican journal of community psychology · 2023Rodriguez Ramirez D, Langhout RDDOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12695
- Marching Toward Utopia: Mentor-Mentee Relationship Devoid of Race or Gender Considerations.Anesthesia and analgesia · 2023Garcia-Marcinkiewicz A, Reece-Nguyen T, Nafiu OODOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000006621
- Scientific Utopia III: Crowdsourcing Science.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2019Uhlmann EL, Ebersole CR, Chartier CR et al.
Article
26 sectionsContents
- Etymology and history
- Definitions and interpretations
- Varieties
- Mythical and religious utopias
- Golden Age
- Scheria
- Arcadia
- The Biblical Garden of Eden
- The Land of Cockaigne
- The Peach Blossom Spring
- Datong
- Ketumati
- Modern utopias
- Social and economic utopias
- Intentional Communities and Experimental Living
- Science and technology
- Ecological
- Feminism
- Intentional communities and experimental living
- Critical Utopia
- Cultural legacy
- See also
- Further reading
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|This is the woodcut for Utopia's map as it appears in Thomas More's Utopia printed by Dirk Martens in December 1516 (the first edition).
A utopia ( ) is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its residents. The term was coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, which describes a fictional island society in the New World, but some utopian visions predate it.