Historia y utopía

Cioran maintains in this collection of essays written around 1960 that no community can survive without creating fictions and clinging to them. Utopias provide the symbols that guide societies towards their future and imagination then allows reality to be structured. Therefore, more than useless dreams, utopias would be a means to develop new perspectives. Let us not, however, have too many illusions: for the great Romanian thinker, the prospect of a new beginning and the fever of an essential expectation that characterize utopian thought put freedom in danger and are the prelude to new and dangerous servitudes.