Utopian studies

In a 1516 book with the same name, the term utopia was created by Sir Thomas More.

[1] Denis Vairasse is mentioned among the earliest scholars in this field.

[1] His History of the Sevarambians contains one of the first thoughts on theoretical reflection on the concept of utopia: "Those who have read Plato's Republic or the Utopia of Thomas More or Chancellor Bacon's New Atlantis, which are in fact nothing more than the ingenious inventions ["imaginations"] of these authors, may think perhaps that this account of newly discovered countries, with all their marvels, is of a similar type ["sont de ce genre"].

"[1] After the Summer of Love in 1960s, there was a significant increase in utopian works.

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