euchronia
English
Noun
euchronia (plural euchronias)
- A time of perfect social, technological, and ecological harmony; a utopian era.
- 2005, Ivana Milojević, Educational Futures: Dominant and Contesting Visions, Routledge (2005), →ISBN, page 16:
- The shift in utopian approaches from a future ideal place to a future ideal time—euchronia—marked a major departure from the traditions begun by Thomas More and prepared the way for the revolutionary era ahead.
- 2008, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction, Wesleyan University Press (2008), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- It was Louis-Sébastien Mercier, according to Alkon, who first introduced the notion of connecting utopian relations to the lives of a contemporary audience in a futuristic euchronia.
- 2011, Catherine Lynch, "Radical Visions of Time in Modern China: The Utopianism of Mao Zedong and Liang Shuming", in Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern China: Essays in Honor of Maurice Meisner (eds. Catherine Lynch, Robert B. Marks, & Paul G. Pickowicz), Lexington Books (2011), →ISBN, page 40:
- Contrasting approaches to Marx's “Preface,” neither one deterministic, by Mao Zedong and Liang Shuming, as we will see, grew from differing orientations toward historical time but shared a common euchronia.
- 2005, Ivana Milojević, Educational Futures: Dominant and Contesting Visions, Routledge (2005), →ISBN, page 16:
See also
- golden age