euchronia

English

Etymology

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Noun

euchronia (plural euchronias)

1. A time of perfect social, technological, and ecological harmony; a utopian era.
   • 2005, Ivana Milojević, Educational Futures: Dominant and Contesting Visions, Routledge, →ISBN, page 16:

     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.

   • 2008, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction‎^[1], Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 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:

     Contrasting 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.

See also

• golden age