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About the commodity The very idea of utopia belongs to Plato, who, in fact, created, in his «State», the first model of an ideal society in the history of European thought. However, the genre of literary utopia — that is, a work that describes a society that is impeccably happy from the point of view of the author — is relatively young: its founding father is officially considered the outstanding British humanist of the 16th century, Thomas More. He also gave his «wonderful island» (and at the same time the whole genre) the name «Utopia» — either from the Greek «good place», or from the Greek «a place that does not exist.» How did the great dreamers of the distant past envision an ideal society? Thomas More allowed the existence of slaves in his ideal society … Tommaso Campanella presented to the judgment of his shocked contemporaries the eccentric ideas of state education of children … «to the phone … And Cyrano de Bergerac created a paradoxical and funny world inhabited by fantastic creatures … The societies that are to be read in this collection are unlikely to seem to the modern reader» utopian «in the usual sense of the word — but it will be all the more interesting to find out how they imagined the happiness of mankind many centuries ago.
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