PHIL 047. Utopias

"A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at", Oscar Wilde once said. The first part of the course is dedicated to reading and discussing some classical utopias by authors like Plato, Al-Farabi, T'ao Ch'ien, More, Campanella, Bacon, Cavendish, de Foigny, Mercier, Diderot, Olympe de Gouges, Pierre Prévost-Monfort, Li Ju-Chen, Fourier, Cabet, Marx, Engels, Edward Johnson, Du Bois, Kollontai, Marcuse, Martin Luther King jr., Callenbach, Suits and others. The second part of the course is dedicated to a discussion of different views on the nature and value of utopias. This includes contributions by authors like Berlin, Bloch, Dahrendorf, Horkheimer, Nozick, Popper, Rawls
Prerequisite: First- and second-year students must complete one introductory level PHIL course before enrolling in this course.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Spring 2023. Baumann.
Catalog chapter: Philosophy
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy

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