{"id":50618,"date":"2025-12-30T19:04:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=50618"},"modified":"2025-12-30T19:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:04:42","slug":"stephanie-roza-utopia-from-the-novel-to-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=50618","title":{"rendered":"St\u00e9phanie Roza, \u201eUtopia: From the Novel to Revolution\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Until the Age of Enlightenment, utopia was a popular literary genre, but without concrete political effects. However, in the decades leading up to 1789, its status gradually changed from an entertaining thought experiment to a socialist project. Imagining the ideal city took on the task of articulating revolutionary transformation of society towards equality and social justice.<br><br>In&nbsp;<em>Utopia<\/em>, St\u00e9phanie Roza explores the nascent ideal of a community of property and labour, not yet called communism, and the thinkers who engaged with it in the lead-up to the French Revolution. These philosophers included \u00c9tienne-Gabriel Morelly, a fierce critic of private property and the mysterious author of the&nbsp;<em>Code de la Nature<\/em>; the Abb\u00e9 de Mably, a radical republican and interlocutor of Rousseau; and Gracchus Babeuf, who, from the 1780s onwards, defended the natural right to subsistence and dreamed of a more fraternal world.<br><br>Together, they laid the foundations for modern socialist movements. In the crucible of the French Revolution, \u2018real equality\u2019 became the goal of a handful of conspirators gathered around Babeuf, who had meanwhile become the \u2018tribune of the people\u2019. The Conspiracy of Equals was considered by Marx to be \u2018the first active communist party\u2019: the hopes and questions that ran through the group prefigured those of the militants of later periods, including today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201eSome books are stimulating for what they present as unprecedented. Stephanie Roza&#8217;s work is undoubtedly one of those.\u201c \u2013 S\u00e9bastien Roman,&nbsp; <em>Asterion<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201eSt\u00e9phanie Roza&#8217;s work fills a conspicuous gap in the history of utopia, describing and analyzing a relatively overlooked moment in its intertwined genealogy.\u201c \u2013 Alex Bellemare,&nbsp; <em>Acta fabula<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201eIn this important and innovative book, St\u00e9phanie Roza sheds light on the intellectual origins of revolutionary utopia. Focusing on three important but too little-known figures, she offers an insightful and fresh approach to the radical Enlightenment.\u201c \u2013 Antonie Lilti, author of <em>The World of the Salons: Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-Century Paris<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>St\u00e9phanie Roza is a researcher in political philosophy affiliated with CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) and the \u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure de Lyon. Her expertise lies in the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and their legacy in socialist and leftist movements during the 19th and 20th centuries. She has published (in French) La gauche contre les Lumi\u00e8res?, Lumi\u00e8res de la gauche, and recently Le marxisme est un humanisme. Jean-Paul Sartre, Georges Luk\u00e1cs, deux philosophies pour l\u2019humanit\u00e9 (1923-1975). She is currently overseeing the complete works edition of Babeuf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>384 pages \/ July 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-link is-provider-ugradnja wp-block-embed-ugradnja\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/798-utopia\">Utopia<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Utopis-Stephanie-Roza.jpeg?fit=181%2C278&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50620,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50618\/revisions\/50620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}