웰스의 『모던 유토피아』(A Modern Utopia)—모더니티와 세계시민주의
H.G. Wells’s A Modern Utopia: Modernity and Cosmopolitanism
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This essay puts H.G. Wells’s 1905 A Modern Utopia into a modernist-socialistic view of cosmopolitanism. Wells’s so-called ‘kinetic’ utopianism characterizes free mobility, representing no border barrier among nation-states. In Wells’s sense, the free mobility also epitomizes kinetic energy, enacting the state of permanent volatility to which modernization brings socio-economic relationships. In A Modern Utopia, Wells’s sense of kinetics stemming from Darwin’s ideas of biological evolution clearly underlies the ever-changing nature of his modern utopian State. Further, Wells’s kinetics is associated with the social dynamics of modernized life Marx figures as fluidity, the manifestation of which is modernity signifying the ever-innovating impulse of bourgeois economy. It is suggested, in Wells’s modernist utopian vision, that the bourgeoisie’s capitalistic drive for innovative change can bring into effect the reformative overthrow of the bourgeois economy itself, an instance of which is socialism. Wells’s socialist cosmopolitanism is a modernist world view dreaming a more perfected, truer form of individual freedom as dialectically evolved from under modernity in which the individuals are free only in terms of free trade.
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This essay puts H.G. Wells’s 1905 A Modern Utopia into a modernist-socialistic view of cosmopolitanism. Wells’s so-called ‘kinetic’ utopianism characterizes free mobility, representing no border barrier among nation-states. In Wells’s sense, the free mobility also epitomizes kinetic energy, enacting the state of permanent volatility to which modernization brings socio-economic relationships. In A Modern Utopia, Wells’s sense of kinetics stemming from Darwin’s ideas of biological evolution clearly underlies the ever-changing nature of his modern utopian State. Further, Wells’s kinetics is associated with the social dynamics of modernized life Marx figures as fluidity, the manifestation of which is modernity signifying the ever-innovating impulse of bourgeois economy. It is suggested, in Wells’s modernist utopian vision, that the bourgeoisie’s capitalistic drive for innovative change can bring into effect the reformative overthrow of the bourgeois economy itself, an instance of which is socialism. Wells’s socialist cosmopolitanism is a modernist world view dreaming a more perfected, truer form of individual freedom as dialectically evolved from under modernity in which the individuals are free only in terms of free trade.
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