Utopia - designing of a new social world. Is there still anything to revolt against? 3502-397

The classes are designed in order to acquaint students with basic issues concerning the Utopia as a category of an idea, its polysemantic (ambiguous) meaning and their implications for new projects of social world planning. The classes are aimed at making an attempt to explicate reasons why philosophers (but not only them) design conceptions of that sort.The classes will also provide students with knowledge concerning historic ideas and assumptions how to design a new "better" world.During the classes we will try to give an answer to the key questions: why do people try to form alternative social orders? What is an origin of that kind of revolt? Is there currently any demand for a such activity? What the utopia and utopian thinking for young people really are and what is the meaning of "an utopian thinking"? How already historical ideas concerning creation of a new world were evolving and what was their progreess in a history? Which elements were common for these ideas and in which there were differences?An important part of the classes will be to present and compare some already realized or being in a process of realisation ideas of a new social world, their evolution, essence and effects resulting from them. There will be also presented some historical ideas, their course and effects.The classes are diveded diveded into three thematic parts:1. Introduction and theoretical analysis of a term Utopia as well as social issues reffering to this term.2. Hictorical (theoretical and realised) 3. Modern (realised or being in progress) ideas of a new order.Basic literature concerning the issue, as well as belle-letteres and information available on official web sites will be used during the classes. The multimedia presentations are also expected. Issues to be presented during individual classes: 1. Theoretical introduction.2. The need for an utopia and historical outline (Platon, Moorus, Campanella Huxley etc...)3. Reazon and purpsoses of origin utopia project.4. Communism, Utopian socialism- phalansteries 5. Fascism 6. Utopia of individualism 7. Auroville8. Christiana9. Kibbutzes10. New age movement as an utopia of self-realization 11. Communes, Squats 12. Jesuit Republic.13. Perfect Cities. Urban utopia.