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DANGERS OF XX-ETH CENTURY WORLD SCIENTIFIC UTOPIAS
DANGERS OF XX-ETH CENTURY WORLD SCIENTIFIC UTOPIAS

Author(s): Teodora Elena Weinberger
Subject(s): Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: negative scientific Utopias; standardization; Psychosis; Love; Global Tyranny;

Summary/Abstract: The most dangerous Utopian features existed since Plato’s “Republic” which proclaims desire’s control and standardization. Nowadays, the expansion of standardization and human alienation are possible through the negative effects of science and technology’s advance. We intend to set off the dangers of world scientific Utopia’s coming true. For that purpose, we analyze the best literary negative scientific Utopias, respectively the novel “Us” by Evgheni Zamiatin and the novel “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley. Perhaps we should ponder over a retort from “Brave New World” that says: „The words are like X rays, if we use them properly”. These XX-eth century novels plead for humanity’s salvation containing in Love, National Identity and Faith – as unique weapons against the Fear, the Psychosis that manipulate us, affecting our Freedom and contributing to the uncontrolled expansion of Global Tyranny.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 776-781
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian
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