ABSTRACT
The four chapters in this part of this book aim to identify feasible utopias. Such utopias have four significant features. First, they are utopian. They are almost certainly not going fully to be realised. Second, they are feasible: that is, in being utopian, they are not fanciful. There are sufficient exemplars already present that show that these utopias could be reached. Third, they contain both optimism and pessimism: they reveal positive possibilities in our present situation but they are confronted with forces in the world such that their coming into being is extremely unlikely. Lastly, utopias are not necessarily all to the good, even if they were realised. As utopias, they look forward to situations that would be mostly beneficial but, as utopias, they often harbour extreme hopes. Dystopias lurk within utopias.1 Each of these four conditions of feasible utopias can be observed in the idea of the therapeutic university.
