RETROTOPIA

We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state a state tha t Thomas More, writing five centuries ago, tied to a topos, a fixed place, a land, an island, a sovereign state under a wise and ben evolent ruler. But while we have lost our faith in utopias of all hues, the human aspiration that made this vision so compelling has not died. Instead it is reemerging today as a vision focused not on the future but on the past, not on a futuretobecreated but on an abandon...[Llegir més]