It is a world of dreams - a world beyond existence - it is the "perfect" world.
Utopia is an ideal society - this is something that More addresses - one interpretation holds that this suggests that while Utopia might be some sort of perfected society, it is ultimately unreachable.
"Our most important task at the present moment is to build castles in the sky"
-Lewis Mumford, The Story of Utopias, 1922
- Utopia is nowhere and it is also somewhere good. To live in a world that cannot be but where one fervently wishes to be: that is literal essence of utopia. To this extent utopia does share the quality of a dream.
- Sir Thomas More (1516) in his book Utopia "here was a place, imaginary, it is true, and accordingly futile to seek out, that where just beyond the boundary of real."
- Utopia's value lies in its relation to present practice but in its relation to a possible future.
- Utopia's no-whereness incites the search for it. A boundary can either confine and inhibit or it can invite us to go beyond.
- What is the boundaries of utopia?
- What are its features as a structure of thought?
