Utopia Theory Interpretation And Contemporary Significance

Utopia is a clue through the history of human being. Utopia is human being’s pursue on merit and ideal.Building the community in full accordance with the utopian ideal will inevitably mess up. But human being will get lost in the social life if we exclude utopia. Tracing back the developing history of the utopian theory, analysing the value an limitations of the utopian theory, and explaining how utopia promotes the social development could help finding a road to achieve the ideal society.Utopia is one of the most important driving force which promote the development of human civilization. Utopia contains the critique of the existing state of human being, and has a new social vision and expectations. Utopian spirit is so important that any society can not lose it. If a society lost the utopian spirit, both individuals and societies will be caught in a dilemma, such as losing the compass while traveling. Utopia is an indispensable dimension of human history and political life. Utopia can not guarantee successful, but if there is no utopian spirit, there is no utopian imagination, so that a better society will not be achieved.One the other hand, the development of modern society riches our material life. But it also causes crisis. Modernization has made us becoming the slaves of material interests. The instrumental rationality and consumer culture made our spiritual pursuit becoming secular and hedonistic. And the understanding and the pursuit of the utopian will allow us to reflect on modern society and look for a better direction of social development.