ABSTRACT
The word “Utopia” itself has its origin in the name of the ideal social state conceived and dramatically described by the Englishman, Sir Thomas More, in a book in dialogue form written in Latin in the years 1515–1516, published by Froben at Louvain, later translated and circulated throughout Europe. The history of literature casts them outside as curiosities or as belonging in the field of politics or stateseraft; political science has given little heed to them because they are held to be fantastic and unscientific. Behind the Utopias lies the utopian spirit, that is, the feeling that society is capable of improvement and can be made over to realize a rational ideal. “Utopias are generally regarded as literary curiosities which have been made respectable by illustrious names, rather than as serious contributions to the political problems which troubled the age at which they appeared.”
