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I don't believe any other fantasy has ever been pursued with so much ardour by the human spirit, apart perhaps from the philosopher's stone or the proof of the existence of God; or that any other utopia has caused so much ink to flow, apart perhaps from socialism.
Personally, I don't think that what stands in the way of Rorty's utopia is the failure of Frederic Jameson and Terry Eagleton to endorse it.
How it came about the the myth could take the place of history, and feed both fiction and utopia, that fiction in the form of dogma of various kinds could take the place of science, that science could progressively dominate fiction, that history, in eliminating myth, could itself become a science, at the cost of a ruthless battle between the imaginary and the real--a battle whose outcome, even today, remains unclear--this story reads like a novel: and in any case, doesn't the word history itself, which designates a succession of facts through time, also encapsulate the word story: a tale, a fable, an imaginary account?
After all, even this architectural utopia has turned out to have its downsides: onerous zoning and architectural restrictions, rules about what you can and cannot do with your garden, a general atmosphere of community-mindedness that can grate on a soul, if that soul (like Truman) starts to develop a live-free-or-die approach to things.
, Plato's Republic and Aristophanes' The Birds ). However, it is Sir Thomas More's speculative work of political science and sociology-- Utopia (from the Greek ou - `not' + topos -`place')--which became, generically, the impossibly perfect place.
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