Ütopya ve Distopya: Siyasetin Edebiyat Üzerindeki Etkisi
Utopia and Dystopia: The Effect of Politics on Literature

Summary/Abstract: This article introduces and evaluates the ideas of utopia and dystopia. In order to make sense of utopia as a genre, its origins, founding texts and evolutionary history are first presented. Within the framework of debates on totalitarianism and capitalism, this study argues that utopia is not only a literary genre but an endeavour for building a future society and a better life by criticising the existing situation of human being. Correspondingly, the questions “What is utopia?” and “Is modern society a ‘dystopia?” are addressed. The relation between the individual (who is at the center of political thought and decision) and the society and power is problematized through utopias that both reflect the political thought of the era they’re written in and are themselves a politico-social proposal.

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