Konstantin Tsiolkovsky’s heroic techno-utopia
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https://doi.org/10.12775/SDR.2021.EN6.08Keywords
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, technological utopia, heroic utopia, cosmism, utopian community in outer spaceAbstract
In this paper, the author attempts to answer the question about the nature of the ideal society presented by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in his utopian novel Beyond the Planet Earth. The specificity of this vision will be discussed by analysing its connections with Tsiolkovsky’s hallmark cosmophilosophical monism, as well as with his naturalistic approach to scientific research. For this purpose, the utopian elements of the vision will be analysed with particular emphasis on the scientific and technological layer. This will allow us to treat the concept as both a technological and a heroic utopia.
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