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The Comparative Study of Utopias

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

This paper places the study of utopian thought in a comparative sociological perspective. It focuses on the relation of utopian drives to the salvational doctrines of the great world historical religions and analyzes their place not only within theodicies, but as alternatives to established models of salvation. The specificities of utopian visions are analyzed in terms of both the emergence of what Karl Jasper termed "Axial Religions" and in their relation to the institutionalized models of social order of different civilizations.

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