
Utopian thinking prompts us to get real about society’s needs
Visions of utopia challenge what is considered to be realistic and help us start to see what must change in social life
by William Paris
William Paris is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is associate editor of the journal Critical Philosophy of Race and co-hosts the podcast What’s Left of Philosophy. He is working on the book ‘Racial Justice and Forms of Life: Towards a Critical Theory of Utopia’.