Utopia. Mark Stephen Jendrysik
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Utopia
Mark Stephen Jendrysik
polity
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Copyright © Mark Stephen Jendrysik 2020
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Names: Jendrysik, Mark Stephen, author.
Title: Utopia / Mark Stephen Jendrysik.
Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2020. | Series: Key concepts in political theory | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “Mark Jendrysik examines the multifarious ways utopians have posed the question of how humans might realize truly human values”-- Provided by publisher.
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Acknowledgments
The roots of this book go back a very long way. My father, Stephen Jendrysik, the longtime president of the Edward Bellamy Memorial Association, first introduced me to the life and work of our hometown utopian. Isaac Asimov encouraged my utopian hopes and dreams when I met him soon after my tenth birthday. I would like to thank my colleagues from the Society for Utopian Studies. I have shared many interesting and enlightening discussions over the last fifteen years with Lyman Tower Sargent, Gregory Claeys, Alex MacDonald, Naomi Jacobs and Claire Curtis. Most of what makes up this book was presented at the society’s conferences. My colleague and friend Ted Pedeleski took the time to read several drafts of the book and provided valuable feedback. The insights of three anonymous reviewers and the editors from Polity, George Owers and Julia Davies, improved the book immeasurably. Students in my classes on utopian thought at the University of Virginia, Bucknell University, the University of Mississippi and the University of North Dakota provided insights that inform every page. And, as ever, Kiara Kraus-Parr inspired me to do my best.
Introduction
Books addressing utopia and utopian political thought often start with a well-known quote from Oscar Wilde: “A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail.” For Wilde, utopia is an aspiration that, once realized, requires us to seek for something better. There can be no end to this pursuit, this desire, this dream. But books about utopia also often start off with an epigram from Max Beerbohm: “So this is utopia … I thought it was hell” (both quoted in Sargent 2010: 1). As a political idea utopia means liberation. But we must always ask: liberation from what? After all, one person’s liberation can be another person’s enslavement. And freedom for some has often required the oppression of others. One person’s paradise could be another’s prison.
Utopia has come to mean ideas that are ridiculed