When anthropology and aesthetics struck up a close alliance during
the late Enlightenment, this threw literary utopias into a deep
crisis. Tracts about societies composed of autonomously reasoning
individuals clashed with an image of human nature that emphasized
the power of the conditioned body. Especially on account of their
dubious reputation, utopias give us the chance to reflect upon
anthropology as an explosive new form of knowledge. This study
examines how thinkers of the Enlightenment and Romanticism used the
utopian genre to respond to the ethical and political problems
resulting from the rehabilitation of sensualism ."
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