Utopianism in the Work of Zygmunt Bauman - Sociologi - Aalborg ...

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1 Bauman himself is suspicious of the myopic understanding that has determined the fate of
the concept of ‘utopia’: “I suspect that in our social-scientific usage all too often we unduly
narrow down the concept of ‘utopia’ to the early modern blueprints of the good society, understood
as a kind of totality which pre-empts its members’ choices and determines in advance
their goodness, however, understood […] I am now inclined to accept that utopia is an
undetachable part of the human condition […] I now believe that utopia is one of humanity’s
constituents, a ‘constant’ in the human way of being-in-the-world. This does not mean that all
utopias are equally good. Utopias may lead to a better life as much as they may mislead and
turn away from what a better life would require to be done” (Bauman & Tester 2001:48-50).
Throughout the years he has moved from the somewhat narrow understanding to a much
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