History and Utopia

History and Utopia
	Cover of the first edition
Author	Emil Cioran
Original title	Histoire et utopie
Language	French
Publisher	Gallimard
Publication date	1960
Published in English	1987

History and Utopia (French: Histoire et utopie) is a 1960 book by Emil Cioran, which analyzes in-depth the vices and virtues of utopia.

Arguments

First of all, Cioran hypothesizes that men isn't able to live with his fellow men. It's in his nature for vacuumazing around him. He has to do an effort for bearing others and living with them in society. Because of that, he needs to design an utopian which could represent a consolation for the most unhappy men. Thus, according to Cioran, a community can't subsist only by creating and maintaining these fictions.

To conclude, Cioran doesn't presenting utopia as an useless dream but rather as a way of developing new prospects. Notwithstanding that, Cioran reveals all of his pessimism by affirming at last that utopia is just unleashing community's energies. Any development, any excess puts freedom at risk.

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