ABSTRACT
Utopias are usually constructed against a background of severe problems or crises in the current society. They are meant to address the major challenges and can therefore be seen as mirrors for inherent problems in the established ideology. Utopianism is defined as a conception of social renewal either by ideas or ideals themselves or embodied in definite agencies of social change. Utopia, inspired by the Aristotelian idea of the good life in the good society, strives to contradict the negative in society and, more generally, the negative in human existence. According to Levitas a key question is connected to the practical implementation of the measures required to fulfill utopian ideas in practice. Utopian realism as an idea is not without its problems, because it sets limits on its legitimacy which potentially confine it to a conservative reading of the present and binding imagination too closely to "what can be imagined as possible rather than what can possible be imagined".
