Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, Vol. 56, No 3 (2021), Special Issue, Articles
Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
p. 161-174 ; Abstract in Polish and English.
In this paper, the author attempts to answer the question about the nature of the ideal society presented by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in his utopian novel Beyond the Planet Earth. The specificity of this vision will be discussed by analysing its connections with Tsiolkovsky’s hallmark cosmophilosophical monism, as well as with his naturalistic approach to scientific research. For this purpose, the utopian elements of the vision will be analysed with particular emphasis on the scientific and technological layer. This will allow us to treat the concept as both a technological and a heroic utopia.
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