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With the relinquishment of utopias, man would lose his will to shape history and therewith his ability to understand it.
With the relinquishment of utopias, man would lose his will to shape history and therewith his ability to understand it.
Karl Mannheim (1936, p. 236)
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Cooper, L., Baer, H.A. (2019). Building the Future: Assaying Ecotopia in the Age of Climate Change. In: Urban Eco-Communities in Australia. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1168-0_2
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