Meanings
plural euchronias
- A time of perfect social, technological, and ecological harmony; a utopian era.
It was Louis-Sébastien Mercier, according to Alkon, who first introduced the notion of connecting utopian relations to the lives of a contemporary audience in a futuristic euchronia.
2008, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN2 more examples
The shift in utopian approaches from a future ideal place to a future ideal time—euchronia—marked a major departure from the traditions begun by Thomas More and prepared the way for the revolutionary era ahead.
2005, Ivana Milojević, Educational Futures: Dominant and Contesting Visions, Routledge, →ISBN, page 16Contrasting approaches to Marx's “Preface,” neither one deterministic, by Mao Zedong and Liang Shuming, as we will see, grew from differing orientations toward historical time but shared a common euchronia.
2011, Catherine Lynch, “Radical Visions of Time in Modern China: The Utopianism of Mao Zedong and Liang Shuming”, in Catherine Lynch, Robert B. Marks, Paul G. Pickowicz, editors, Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern China: Essays in Honor of Maurice Meisner, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 40
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