| Description |
My object in this paper will be to focus upon the philosophical assertions of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard germaine to the role of religion in Utopia. The juxtaposition of existentialism and utopian literature produces a contrast of Augustinian and Palagian views of man which may illuminate the application, within existential thought, of the concept of the "elect" and the Augustinian view of Original Sin, concepts whose absorption into the mainstream of twentieth century literature have precluded serious modern contributions to the utopian genre. |
