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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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Vinony's link graph records 2,562 inbound references to utopia, and connects out to narration, Corfu and stylistic device.

It sits within the topics 16th-century neologisms, Science fiction themes and Speculative fiction.

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Named after
Utopia
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New Harmony, Indiana, por F. Bates.jpg
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Commons category
Utopia
opposite of
dystopia
topic's main category
Category:Utopias
derivative work
dystopia
different from
Utopia
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Encyclopedic overview

26 sections
Contents
  • 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “utopia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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