Tell us about Augustine’s City of God.Īugustine’s City of God created the distinction between the ‘City of God,’ which is perfect, and the earthly city, where we live day-to-day. Your first title, from the fifth century, is a cornerstone of Western thought. The idea of a perfect community dates back, at least, to Plato’s Republic. My parents still live in the chateau that the communitarians built for themselves in the 1860s and 1870s. I still have strong connections to Oneida. The community pretty much stayed together-up until the dissolution in 1880-and then turned into a silverware manufacturing company, which was kind of family-owned. My ancestors were the original nucleus of the community. That is where they really started their community in earnest in 1848. When their polyamory was discovered, they were kicked out of Putney and moved to Oneida, New York. Originally they lived in Putney, Vermont. My great great- great-grandparents were the six couples that formed the Oneida community in the 1840s. You have an ancestral attachment to this topic. Utopias help us index and critique contemporary social conditions they open our eyes to the ways in which current ways of organizing are narrow or biased. Utopia generally refers to a positive program for organizing society, but the way they typically envision organizing is either impractical or improbable so utopias usually fail.
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Utopia is the topic of our discussion and the topic of your book Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table. Foreign Policy & International Relations.
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