Problematic field of utopian thinking

Authors
  • Ignatov G.E.

Abstract

Article expands polysemy of conventional meanings and positional values of "Utopia", discusses the complexity of its manifestations, as well as the diversity of its formation and development. The relevant definitions of "Utopia" are: "blessed anywhere country"; "realm of order and justice"; "Kingdom of bright and vague hope"; the specific mechanism of thinking; philosophical ideal; fair and true social order offer; model of society and simultaneously unrealizable sociality, etc. The word «utopia» denotes the unity of philosophic concept with an environment –political philosophy. Article describes some archetypal properties of “utopia”, such as denial of the modern social system.