L’attaque contre l’individualité dans les antiutopies totalitaires modernes
The Attack against Individuality in Modern Totalitarian Dystopias

Summary/Abstract: When put into political and social practice, utopian projects often gave birth to totalitarian societies. Modern dystopias try to prevent such evolutions by a kind of literary “thought experiments”, which show that the constructive principles of utopian societies lead not to the eudemonic issues promised by their authors but to nightmarish results. The main procedure for the making of such terrifying fictional worlds is the reductio ad absurdum (argument to absurdity). Writers such as Zamyatin, Huxley, Orwell, Bradbury, Levin, Atwood and many others start from the core assumption that societies organized on the abstract principle of general good inevitably destroy the free will and the human nature of individuals.

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