La crise démographique dans l’utopie au XVIIIe siècle
Demographic Crisis in the 18th-Century’s Utopia

Author(s): Stanisław Świtlik
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, French Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: crisis; demography; utopia; populationism; Enlightenment; malthusianism
Summary/Abstract: The population number on the Earth has been worrying thinkers since the end of the 17th century. The crisis in which we can identify two averse tends, animated literary and intellectual exchanges during all the 18th century until the publication of Malthusian Essay in 1798. Utopia, whose generic construction relies on a social reflection, approaches often the problem theoretically, when it gives voice to populationists and their opponents. The article brings some light on the functioning of the literary and ideological utopia, and on use of this burning subject in philosophical debates.

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